Parliament apologizes to the Stolen Generations

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 Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act authorized ex gratia payments for eligible survivors removed from family under state authority, alongside payments to eligible children of deceased...

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 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...

The UK government expressed regret for abuses during the Kenya Emergency and agreed a £19.9 million settlement for 5,228 Kenyan claimants, plus support for a Nairobi memorial. The government expressly...

General Assembly resolution 68/237 proclaimed 2015–2024 the International Decade under the theme “Recognition, Justice and Development.” It created an international framework for tackling the legacies...

CARICOM governments approved a plan developed with the Caribbean Reparations Commission, responding to Indigenous genocide and slavery. Its measures include a formal apology, repatriation, an...