Belgian prime minister apologizes to people of mixed ancestry abducted during colonial rule

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Decree 4,887/2003, preserving the administrative process for identifying and titling quilombola lands. The ruling strengthened a...

The Act records the Crown's acknowledgements and apology to Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and gives effect to cultural and commercial redress. It provides statutory recognition of historical claims and sets...

Germany transferred 27 human remains of Indigenous people to a Namibian delegation. They had been taken during the colonial period and used for purported scientific research without respect for the...

Te Patukirikiri and the Crown signed a deed that records an agreed historical account, Crown acknowledgements and apology, cultural redress, and financial and commercial redress. It settled historical...

Commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy recommended permanent restitution of African cultural objects taken without consent, with provenance research and new...

The General Assembly welcomed the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion that the Chagos Archipelago’s decolonization had not been lawfully completed and called on the United Kingdom to...

During a visit to Dakar, France announced and ceremonially presented a sword attributed to the 19th-century Islamic scholar and leader El Hadj Omar Tall. The French government described the act as a...

At Kōpinga Marae on Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), Moriori and the Crown signed a deed addressing historical Treaty claims. It includes an agreed historical account, a Crown apology, financial and cultural...

In a letter marking Congolese independence, King Philippe said acts of violence and cruelty during the Congo Free State continued to weigh on collective memory and expressed his deepest regrets for...

The federal Chamber established a special commission to examine the Congo Free State, Belgian colonial rule in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, their consequences and possible follow-up. It heard testimony,...