Ngāi Tahu deed records Crown apology and settlement

The treaty signed at Port-au-Prince reduced the remaining indemnity owed by Haiti to 60 million francs and set a long repayment schedule. It confirmed Haitian sovereignty in formal diplomatic terms...

The decree abolished slavery in French colonies and possessions and declared that French citizens could not own or traffic enslaved people. Abolition was a victory shaped by enslaved people’s...

The law fixed compensation for colonial owners after abolition. It converted enslaved people’s freedom into a public financial liability to former owners, while the newly emancipated received no...

The First Pan-African Conference on Reparations for African Enslavement, Colonization and Neo-Colonization adopted the Abuja Proclamation. It declared reparations a matter of justice, called on...

The Crown acknowledged and apologized for the invasion and confiscation of Waikato lands. The settlement combined NZ$170 million in cash and assets, return or purchase of selected lands, and...

Parliament enacted the settlement, recording the Crown apology and enabling land transfers, financial redress and cultural measures. The Act made the settlement legally operative for historical claims...

France’s law recognizes the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades and slavery as crimes against humanity, calls for teaching and research, and designates a national remembrance day. It is a...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Nicaragua violated the property rights of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni community by failing to demarcate and title its traditional lands. It ordered...

The World Conference against Racism acknowledged the massive suffering caused by slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and related atrocities, and affirmed that slavery and the slave...

Decree 4,887 regulates identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation and titling of lands occupied by quilombola communities, many formed by people who escaped enslavement and their...