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The Pristina Basic Court has placed five former members of the Serbian police force into 30-day custody, it announced on Monday. The men are suspected of involvement in the January 15, 1999 massacre in Recak/Racak, which was the catalyst for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia two months later. The five...

Croatia’s High Criminal Court on Wednesday upheld the 2023 verdict of the Zagreb County Court, which sentenced Branimir Glavas to seven years in prison for war crimes against Serbs in the city of Osijek, eastern Croatia in 1991. The crimes took place against Serb civilians in Osijek during Croatia’s...

For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0—a rare show of unanimity—to adopt a bill...

After years of allegations of land dispossession by a now-dissolved Catholic group, the highest ecclesiastical authorities in the Andean country on Saturday held a symbolic reparation ceremony for the Indigenous people whose land was taken away. The Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was...

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday ordered an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to pay $8.4 million in reparations for atrocities he oversaw as head of the Islamic police in the desert city of Timbuktu in the West African country of Mali. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was...

The UN General Assembly’s resolution on Wednesday declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being welcomed across Africa and among slave descendants and advocates of restorative justice. About 12 million Africans were...

In response to the Algerian police sealing the Algiers office of SOS Disappeared, a human rights organization advocating for accountability for the thousands forcibly disappeared in the 1990s conflict, on 16 March 2026, Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at...

Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs. France slammed the law as a “hostile act”...

Top European officials have agreed to launch an international commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, established in a treaty signed by 35 countries at Tuesday’s conference...

African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized, and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations for...