France transfers ownership of 26 royal treasures to Benin

Ngāti Maru and the Crown signed a deed settling historical Treaty claims. It included an apology and acknowledgements, NZ$30 million in financial and commercial redress and vesting of 16 sites of...

Germany acknowledged the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama people by German colonial forces and proposed €1.1 billion over 30 years for development projects. Germany described the funding as a gesture of...

Report A/76/180 by the UN Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence examines transitional justice measures addressing gross violations committed in colonial...

A French development law created a mechanism to return proceeds from the sale of assets definitively confiscated in France to the countries concerned, through cooperation and development programs...

The Crown signed a deed after a delay from its initialling in 2018. The $115 million package includes Crown acknowledgements and apology, financial and commercial redress, 33 cultural properties,...

At the Élysée, France and Benin finalized the transfer of ownership of 26 royal objects looted by French forces from the Kingdom of Dahomey in 1892. The transfer followed years of Beninese demands and...

The deed included NZ$165 million financial and commercial redress, return of 36 culturally significant sites, a greater role for Maniapoto in natural resource management, and a gift-and-gift-back...

The 26 treasures of Abomey arrived in Benin after the formal transfer of ownership three days earlier. The objects include royal works taken during the French conquest of Dahomey in 1892. Physical...

The Moriori Claims Settlement Act received Royal assent, placing the Crown's historical account, acknowledgements and apology in law and providing for cultural properties, official names, customary...

Belgian authorities returned a tooth identified as belonging to Congolese independence leader Patrice Emery Lumumba to his family in a state ceremony. Lumumba was assassinated in 1961 with Belgian...