By Emma Farge, Reuters — The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on…
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By Emma Farge and Catarina Demony, Reuters — France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in…
By Catarina Demony, Reuters — Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people,…
By Sir Hilary McD. Beckles — It took all of the nineteenth century, beginning with the Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804 and ending with the act of emancipation of…
Mia Mottley tells London audience that King Charles’s comments about slavery’s impact were welcome. By Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian — King Charles’s comment that the “time has come” to acknowledge…
Partnership between Glasgow University and University of the West Indies was established as part of a reparative justice programme. By Sally Weale, The Guardian — The world’s first master’s degree…
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the cross-party group on reparations, said UK had a ‘moral duty’ to face up to the past as campaigners gather in London this weekend. By Nadine…
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation. By Donna Ferguson, The Guardian — Caribbean nations are preparing formal letters demanding that…
Caribbean activists helped make reparations a mainstream concept. Now they hope ex-colonial powers will commit to paying, even if it’s not the trillions of dollars slavery is estimated to have…
By Reuters — Representatives from various African and Caribbean entities joined forces at a historic event this week in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown, to demand reparations for slavery and…
The tiny island, alongside other Caribbean nations, is expected to request that 10 European countries begin negotiations for reparations. Text by Janell Ross / Bridgetown, Barbados | Photographs by Christopher…
By Earl Bousquet — CARICOM’s 50th Anniversary coincides with a decade of development of decisions that have led to its most-important international diplomatic and political achievement to date: Its decision…
