Brazil reports progress and continuing barriers in quilombola land titling

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...

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...

Following the UN resolution on enslaved Africans, Ghana convened a high-level conference on reparatory justice and announced advisory, cultural restitution and legal panels to develop next steps....

The Caribbean Court of Justice dismissed an application seeking clarification of its earlier order on recognition and protection of Maya customary land tenure. The decision concerned implementation of...

Reuters reported on 27 October that King Charles III and Queen Camilla began a visit to the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda amid Caribbean demands for reparations for Britain’s role in the...