Tasmania legislates ex gratia payments for Stolen Generations survivors

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...

The national settlement created a Common Experience Payment for eligible former students, an Independent Assessment Process for claims of serious abuse, funding for commemoration and healing, and a...

In Saramaka People v. Suriname, the Inter-American Court recognized collective property rights of a tribal people and ordered legal recognition, consultation and safeguards for projects affecting...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a national apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, especially the Stolen Generations, acknowledging laws and policies that caused profound grief...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in the House of Commons for the residential school system and the harms it inflicted on First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and families. The apology...

The Benghazi treaty addressed disputes from Italian colonial rule. Article 8 committed Italy to fund agreed basic infrastructure projects in Libya up to US$5 billion, at US$250 million annually for 20...