The remains of sixty-three southern Africa’s oldest indigenous people whose bodies were dug up and sent to Europe for scientific research centuries ago were reburied last week in South Africa.
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UK: Church Of England To Raise £1bn Slavery Reparations Fund
The Church of England’s £100 million fund set up to address historic links to slavery is too small and should be raised to £1 billion, says an independent oversight group.
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UK: Former MP Threatens Lagal Action Over Outing Her Family’s Links To Slavery
A former Conservative party MP has been slammed after trying to get a university to delete her family’s links to slavery.
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Reparation Case For Surviving Tulsa Race Massacre Thrown Out
An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing any hope of justice for the elderly victims of the deadly racist rampage.
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UK: The Guardian’s Owner Apologises For Profiting From Slave Trade
The Scott Trust, the founding owners of the worldwide newspaper title, The Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice.
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UK: Aristocrat BBC Journalist Quits For Reparations Crusade
A BBC journalist whose family made history by publicly apologizing for owning enslaved African people and paying reparation has now quit her job to campaign for reparations.
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NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Apologise For Slavery
The Netherlands Prime Minister has offered a formal apology on behalf of the Dutch state for its role in the slave trade during the 17th-19th centuries, saying slavery must be recognised in “the clearest terms” as a crime against humanity.
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GHANA: President Akufo-Addo Joins Call For Reparations
Ghana President Akufo-Addo contrasts lack of reparations for enslavement to the awarding of reparations for other atrocities
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HAGUE: ICJ Rules Uganda Pay $325m War Reparations To Democratic Republic Of Congo
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the government of Uganda to pay $325 million in reparations to Democratic Republic of Congo for the invasion by Uganda of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the 1998-2003 war.
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UK: Looted Ethiopian Artefacts Withdrawn From Auction
Two artefacts that were taken looted during colonial-era by British forces in Ethiopia have been withdrawn from auction after the Ethiopian government appealed to an auction house selling them to “stop the cycle of dispossession”.
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