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2
December
2024

Belgian court awards damages to women abducted under colonial rule

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📅 2 December 2024 📍 België, Congo-Kinshasa

A Brussels court ordered Belgium to compensate five women of mixed Congolese-European parentage who were forcibly separated from their mothers and placed in institutions during colonial rule. The court treated the abductions as a crime against humanity and awarded €50,000 to each claimant. The case offers individual material redress and judicial recognition of racialized colonial child removal, not a general reparations program.

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Five Congolese métis women

Belgian judges

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Brussels Court of Appeal

Belgian state