Sweden extends the Tornedalian commission’s inquiry

The Prime Minister’s Office established the project preparing the commission and its mandate. The process followed a Sámi Parliament initiative and required cooperation with Sámi representative...

The House of Representatives created a special commission to examine Belgium’s colonial history in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi and consider how to address its consequences. The commission became a forum...

Historian Benjamin Stora submitted a commissioned report to President Macron recommending symbolic measures, archives access and memorial actions on the Algerian War. It did not recommend a general...

Negotiators initialled a declaration recognizing the 1904–1908 genocide against Herero and Nama and expressing Germany’s intention to ask forgiveness. Several affected community leaders criticized the...

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that Germany recognized the colonial atrocities in present-day Namibia as genocide and would ask Namibia and descendants for forgiveness. A €1.1 billion,...

The advisory group recommended acknowledgment, apology and recovery for the Netherlands’ role in slavery, centering descendants’ testimony and the continuing effects of slavery. Its findings helped...

The Supreme Court found that wind-farm licences affecting Sámi reindeer herding violated the herders’ right to enjoy their own culture because adequate mitigation was absent. The ruling established...

At a remembrance ceremony for Algerians killed by French police in Paris on 17 October 1961, Macron called the massacre an inexcusable crime for the Republic. The statement named state violence but...

Finland appointed a five-member commission in cooperation with the Sámi Parliament and Skolt Sámi Siida Council. Its task was to collect Sámi experiences of state actions and their effects,...

Sweden tasked a commission with examining historical state policy toward Sámi people and its consequences, spreading knowledge and proposing measures for redress and reconciliation. The commission was...