Canada apologizes to five Anishinaabeg First Nations and commemorates CAD$447.9 million settlement

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...

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...

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...

Brazil’s 2024 government reporting described the Alcântara quilombola territory as moving toward titling after a decades-long conflict, with recognition steps allowing the titling process to begin....

The United Kingdom and Mauritius signed an agreement providing for Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and continued UK-US operation of the Diego Garcia base under a long-term lease. The...

The General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/80/250, spearheaded by Ghana, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement the gravest crime against humanity and...