African Union designates 2025 as the Year of Reparations

Delegates from Africa and the diaspora adopted a shared call addressing enslavement, colonialism and apartheid, including structural inequalities in global political and economic systems. The...

Law 2023-1251 created a process for removing identified human remains originating in a foreign state from France’s public collections so they can be returned to that state for funerary purposes. It...

The British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum announced a three-year loan of 32 Asante objects to the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi. The objects were to be displayed in Ghana for the first...

Canada executed an agreement addressing its failure to provide the 'cows and ploughs' agricultural benefits promised under Treaty 10. English River First Nation had voted to accept the agreement in...

UCLA’s Fowler Museum permanently returned seven Asante objects to Ghana, following a request from the Manhyia Palace Museum. The university described the objects as taken from the Asante kingdom...

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...

The government responded that it would not begin a process to compensate former colonies for the colonial past, contrasting with the president’s recent remarks. The statement made a refusal of...