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In Australia, transitional justice is being undermined by politics. The Aboriginal community is trying to adapt to the failings of truth commissions following the recent change of government in Queensland. Photo: An Aboriginal man, with only his hands visible, burns herbs during a traditional smoking ceremony.
The retreating tide of transitional justice in Australia
24 January 2025 by Maxim Shanahan
There have been many setbacks for transitional justice in Australia in the past year. The latest one happened in the state of Queensland. A new Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry was shut down after the conservative opposition won [...]
Norway on the road to reconciliation with the Sami indigenous peoples, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. Photo : traditional dwellings of the Sami people - set up in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament. The beginning of Norway’s reconciliation process
28 November 2024 by Astrid Nonbo Andersen + Amalie Drage Habbestad + Astri Dankertsen
On November 12, the Norwegian Parliament apologized to the Sami, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. It also acted on the report and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliat [...]
Political treaty on the future of the Chagos Islands between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. Photo: The island of Diego Garcia seen from a satellite. Will the Chagos treaty address the wrongs of the past?
22 November 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
In October 2024, the United Kingdom and Mauritius suddenly announced that they had “reached a political agreement on the future” of the Chagos islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean from which around 2,000 Chagossians were fo [...]
Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group. Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy
On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
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Catholic residential school (named
22 February 2024 by Clémentine Méténier
Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe A request to create a "Truth Commission on Indian Homes in French Guiana (1935-2023)" was submitted on February 1, 2024, to the French National Assembly, in the form of a report by the Institut francophone pour la Justice et la Dé [...]
In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)
16 January 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence In 2023 the Special Jurisdiction for Peace issued groundbreaking findings on the crimes committed against Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia, especially for the Awá. It has notably included the war crimes of destru [...]
Art installation in Australia representing the aboriginal flag
9 November 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Against tide, Yoorrook Commission goes on One year after the start of a unique Australian truth-telling commission run by First Peoples in the state of Victoria, known as the Yoorrook Commission, urgent recommendations have been made to authorities after hearings which gr [...]
8 September 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game? For several years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of Venezuela have sort of played a cat and mouse game. And meanwhile, almost ten years after Nicolas Maduro became president, serious human rights violat [...]
Truth Commission in Norway - A woman poses in traditional Sami clothing.
29 August 2023 by Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Astri Dankertsen and Otso Kortekangas
Will Norway’s truth and reconciliation process bring change? A public reading of Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report took 35 hours and was broadcast live. But during its five years of work, the TRC rarely made national headlines. Most Norwegians know little about Indig [...]
Aboriginal children in Australia - Yoorrook Commission reveals alarming colonization figures
2 May 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system” In Australia’s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to ad [...]
Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia
27 March 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims Two weeks ago, Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace indicted 10 former regional commanders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This second indictment against [...]
Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage
6 March 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system The Yoorrook Truth Commission, in Victoria state, southeast Australia, restarted on Wednesday March 1 with a third round of hearings centred on truth-telling about the removal of the Aboriginal children from their families and chi [...]
Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.
3 February 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission At the national level, Australia has struggled to hold a truth, reconciliation and reparations process on the violence committed against Indigenous peoples. The state of Victoria, in South-East Australia, wants to reverse this cou [...]
Justice in Amazonia - Indigenous inhabitant of the Amazonian forest, in Brazil, in traditional dress
31 January 2023 by Julia Crawford
Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon? Brazil’s new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he wants to make tackling environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon a priority. An NGO "Communication" to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in la [...]
Canada's Indigenous people in the Vatican
1 April 2022 by AFP
Pope offers Church's 'apology' to Canada's indigenous people Pope Francis apologised, on Friday 1st of April, to Indigenous people for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada. The long-awaited apology comes almost a year after the discovery of unmarked graves at the site [...]
A large group of indigenous women outside the Justice Palace in Guatemala
28 March 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Guatemala: How indigenous women beat paramilitaries Despite all odds, Guatemala’s highest court has sentenced five former paramilitary soldiers to 30 years in jail for raping 36 indigenous Maya Achi women during the country’s civil war, on January 24. In this new podcast, our partn [...]
Group of nomadic Sámis
2 December 2021 by Astri Dankertsen and Malin Arvidsson
Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom? The Church of Sweden made an official apology to the Sámi people on 24 November, just weeks after two new truth commissions were set up to inquire into historical injustices against the Sámi in Sweden and Finland. Although differe [...]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Cadmus Delorme and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stand for a photograph with residential school survivors following a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Cowessess First Nation, Sask, July 6, 2021.
16 November 2021 by Chandni Dhingra
Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada The recent discovery of anonymous graves at former Canadian residential schools has reopened the debate on the response to redress for crimes against indigenous peoples. The various transitional justice mechanisms that have been p [...]
Pygmy (Twa) child in the bush (DRC)
6 September 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza et Claude Sengenya
DRC: Indigenous Twa are freed but still landless A Congolese military court has released seven members of the Twa ethnic group convicted for "wicked destruction of nature" after settling in a park in the south of the country. But the struggle continues for these indigenous peopl [...]
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