Inter-American Court recognizes Saramaka collective rights and reparations

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Nicaragua violated the property rights of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni community by failing to demarcate and title its traditional lands. It ordered...

The World Conference against Racism acknowledged the massive suffering caused by slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and related atrocities, and affirmed that slavery and the slave...

Decree 4,887 regulates identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation and titling of lands occupied by quilombola communities, many formed by people who escaped enslavement and their...

The Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act authorized ex gratia payments for eligible survivors removed from family under state authority, alongside payments to eligible children of deceased...

The national settlement created a Common Experience Payment for eligible former students, an Independent Assessment Process for claims of serious abuse, funding for commemoration and healing, and a...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a national apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, especially the Stolen Generations, acknowledging laws and policies that caused profound grief...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in the House of Commons for the residential school system and the harms it inflicted on First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and families. The apology...

The Benghazi treaty addressed disputes from Italian colonial rule. Article 8 committed Italy to fund agreed basic infrastructure projects in Libya up to US$5 billion, at US$250 million annually for 20...

The UK government expressed regret for abuses during the Kenya Emergency and agreed a £19.9 million settlement for 5,228 Kenyan claimants, plus support for a Nairobi memorial. The government expressly...

General Assembly resolution 68/237 proclaimed 2015–2024 the International Decade under the theme “Recognition, Justice and Development.” It created an international framework for tackling the legacies...