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Reparations

Rehabilitating victims of serious human rights violations

Reparations in justice include financial compensation for victims of international crimes and serious human rights violations. As well as non-financial, collective or symbolic measures. They represent a key tool in restoring the dignity of victims and promoting reconciliation and social justice. From the workings of the International Criminal Court Trust Fund to the restitution of cultural assets stolen during colonization to the recognition of victims of the "Genocost" in the Democratic Republic of Congo or victims of sexual violence in the Catholic Church,, read the latest news on reparations, documented by our experts.

Several people are sitting in a waiting room with 5 women in the front row.

Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state

Léa, Monique, Noëlle, Simone and Marie-José were victims of systematic segregation, as were 15,000 other mixed-race children, when Congo was a Belgian colony. The five women living in Belgium and France who were born in the Congo are demanding reparations from the Belgian state, and the recognition of a "crime against humanity".

By Gaëlle Ponselet

Exterior view of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin

A castle full of stolen goods

Demonstrators march in the street carrying a banner

Habré is dead but victims’ right for compensation lives on

A visitor to the Quai Branly Museum observes 3 statues from the royal treasures of Abomey.

Colonial crimes: Cultural property should be returned unconditionally

Bronze of Oba, a king of Benin

Restitution of the 'Benin Bronzes': "All of the global North are implicated"

Hissène Habré

Habré's death: Final blow or wake-up call for reparations?

Demonstration by victims of the Jammeh regime

Gambia’s Truth Commission puts a price on reparations

Indigenous ceremony near the graves of children who were victims of Canadian residential schools during the colonial era

Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence

In Canada, tombs of indigenous children shake national conscience

3D aerial view of the future musuem of Abomey, in Benin

Colonial crimes: Benin prepares for the return of its cultural heritage

Vandalized statue of King Leopold II of Belgium

Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: expert mission ends

Dutch soldiers fire shells in the Chora region, Afghanistan

Dutch war crimes in Afghanistan: The Australian trigger

Benin Bronzes

Colonial Crimes: The empire on which justice (almost) never sets

Queen Beatrix parades in the Golden Carriage (Netherlands)

Between pride and apologies, the Dutch are not yet ready to repair

Inscription in the Maori language on a wall

New Zealand leads the way on reparations for indigenous people

The abolition of slavery in the French colonies

How science can help thinking on colonial crimes reparation

Amzat Boukari-Yabara

Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “France, the United States and Brazil are the main bad guys on this issue of reparations”

Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives

Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives

Namibian genocide: why Germany’s bid to make amends isn’t enough