Finnmark Act recognizes local and Sámi interests in land

The opening of the elected Sámi Parliament created a representative body for Sámi people under Norwegian law. It formed an institutional setting for later state acknowledgment and apology, while its...

The Act established the Sámi Parliament as an autonomous representative body and set duties for authorities to negotiate on specified matters. It provides institutional recognition but did not...

At the opening of the third Sámi Parliament, King Harald V apologized on behalf of the Norwegian state for past wrongs against Sámi people. He described Norway as founded on the territory of two...

The French Parliament unanimously adopted the law recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. It opened a national route to remembrance and education, but did not...

At the centenary commemoration of the 1904 uprising in Namibia, Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul asked the Herero people for forgiveness for German colonial atrocities. She spoke for the...

President Jacques Chirac announced 10 May as a national day of remembrance of slavery, the slave trade and their abolition. The commemorative measure recognized the history without constituting a...

Prime Minister Tony Blair described the transatlantic slave trade as profoundly shameful and expressed sorrow and regret. He did not offer the formal apology sought by Caribbean states and...

The UK marked 200 years since the 1807 abolition of its slave trade. Government commemorations and Blair’s prior expression of regret did not amount to the formal state apology and reparations...

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi apologized for the harm caused by Italian colonial rule in Libya and signed a treaty providing for a $5 billion infrastructure investment over 20 years. The...

Foreign Secretary William Hague announced a settlement for 5,228 Kenyan claimants and said the government sincerely regretted that abuses took place under colonial rule. The government did not...