By Francis Kokutse , AP — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved…
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UN secretary general says no country has comprehensively accounted for the past. By Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian — A UN report calling on countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic…
By Catarina Demony, Reuters — Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Tuesday his country should apologise and take responsibility for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, the…
By Daniel Steyn, allAfrica — The President’s Fund is growing as apartheid’s victims wait The President’s Fund was established to pay reparations to victims of human rights abuses under apartheid….
This Declaration Serves as the Final Outcome of the Advancing Justice: Reparations and Racial Healing Summit 2022 PDF versions of this declaration available in English | Español | Français On…
Covering up slavery in the birth of the US. Lawmakers are seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the United States, but history tells a…
Accra, Ghana — A year-long series of meetings focused on Reparations and Racial Healing facilitated by a cohort of organizations working as a collective, culminated in an international convening attended…
Ghana President Akufo-Addo contrasts lack of reparations for enslavement to the awarding of reparations for other atrocities. By Leah Mahon, Voice Online — The President of Ghana has led calls…
Nana Akufo-Addo said compensation for the trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is long overdue and compared Africa’s lack of reparations to the enormous sums paid to slaveholders at the…
Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. By Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine — A sweeping survey of more than 50,000 people’s DNA…
By Abbey Ryan, OWP — In June, Germany offered Namibia more than one billion euros over 30 years as reparations for the 1904-1908 genocide and property theft of thousands of…
By Bert Wilkinson, Amsterdam News — With the Black Lives Matter movement growing in worldwide recognition, Caribbean Community nations are seeking to cash in on its influence and are tweaking…
