Storting establishes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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...

The British government supported a memorial in Nairobi as part of the 2013 Mau Mau settlement. Officials framed it as recognition and reconciliation; survivors continued to seek fuller...

During a campaign interview in Algiers, presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described colonization as a crime against humanity and said France should face its history. He later clarified that he...

Parliament called on the government to recognize the forced separation and discriminatory treatment of mixed-race children in the Belgian Congo. The resolution laid groundwork for a later apology...

President Macron acknowledged that Maurice Audin died under torture by the French army and that the French state operated a system that enabled enforced disappearances during the Algerian War. This...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a letter to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis asking for an apology for abuses against Indigenous peoples during the conquest. The request triggered a...

Prime Minister Charles Michel apologized on behalf of the Belgian state for separating mixed-race children from their Congolese mothers and placing many in institutions. The apology addressed a...

The Storting expanded the inquiry to include Forest Finns, broadening the historical record beyond Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finn communities. The addition followed criticism that the original mandate...

The government agreed to move toward appointing a truth and reconciliation commission and to prepare its mandate in cooperation with the Sámi Parliament and Skolt Sámi Siida Council. This marked a...