Portuguese government rejects initiating a reparations process for former colonies

The AU Assembly adopted a Ghanaian proposal to make “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” its 2025 theme. The decision asked for stronger continental coordination, a...

An independent oversight group said the Church’s initial £100 million commitment was inadequate in relation to its historic links to chattel enslavement and recommended a £1 billion fund for...

Lac Seul First Nation members ratified an agreement concluding a long-running claim over flooding of more than 11,000 acres of reserve land without consent, lawful authority or compensation. Final...

INCRA published Portaria 445/2024 delimiting private areas within the Pitanga de Palmares territory in Bahia, a step toward collective titling for 536 registered quilombola families. The action...

At a meeting with foreign correspondents, the president said Portugal bore responsibility for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and colonial rule and suggested the country should address...

A decree established implementing rules for the 2023 law on returning human remains from public collections, including how requests and advisory review are handled. The decree makes the new legal...

UCLA’s Fowler Museum returned 20 cultural belongings to the Warumungu community in Australia after consultation with community representatives. The objects had entered the museum’s collections through...

Canada apologized to Aundeck Omni Kaning, M’Chigeeng, Sheguiandah, Sheshegwaning and Zhiibaahaasing First Nations for mismanaging money owed from late-1800s land sales. The Crown had used those...

After considering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, the Storting expressed its deepest apology to Sámi, Kvens/Norwegian Finns and Forest Finns for the Norwegianization policy. It also...

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...