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Ukraine’s Presidential Office announced that the International Register of Damage for Ukraine has begun accepting applications for compensation from families who lost close relatives due to Russia's full-scale invasion. According to the register’s website, the application process for this category...
Syrian rebels seized the capital Damascus unopposed on Sunday after a lightning advance that sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia after a 13-year civil war and six decades of his family's autocratic rule.
The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday found the Belgian state guilty of “crimes against humanity” for kidnapping five mixed-race women when they were children in Congo under colonial rule. Overturning a lower court decision from 2021, the judge said that the government at that time had “a plan to...
The Palm Springs city council on Thursday unanimously approved a $5.9m reparations settlement with former residents of a largely Black neighborhood that was leveled in the 1960s for commercial development. The city council was also set to approve another $21m for housing and small-business support...
Canada’s special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools has released the final report of her mandate, providing recommendations on how the government can honor the memory of the thousands of children who were killed at forced...
Not a single country has contributed towards reparations for the victims and survivors of the Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) awarding €52.4m (£44m) for this purpose in February, according to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (TFV). The ICC reparations...
The UK government will not apologize over Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade at next week’s Commonwealth heads of government (Chogm) summit in Samoa, Downing Street has said. Downing Street said on Monday that the government would not be paying reparations for slavery. News that neither...
King Charles and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have faced renewed calls for the United Kingdom to pay slavery reparations, which could far exceed £200 billion ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chgom) in Samoa beginning on October 21. A group of 15 Caribbean...
Japan’s Upper and Lower Houses have passed a long sought-after bill to provide compensation to people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilized under the former Eugenic Protection Law. The bill was compiled by a cross-party group of Diet members in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in July...
Zimbabwe’s government is to start distributing $20 million as initial compensation to local Black and foreign white farmers whose land was taken from them during the land invasions more than two decades ago. According to the country’s finance minister, the move is part of a broader effort by the...