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Justice for Aboriginal people in Australia - Shane Patton, Victoria's Chief Commissioner, admits the injustices still faced by Indigenous Peoples.
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Yoorrook Commission: “It takes the death of an Aboriginal” to reform laws

In the fortnight to Monday May 15, senior representatives of law, prisons and police institutions appeared before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, to face questioning over their responsibility in perpetuating the systemic injustice faced by Aboriginal in Australia’s state of Victoria.
By Maxim Shanahan, our correspondent in Australia
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Aboriginal children in Australia - Yoorrook Commission reveals alarming colonization figures

Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system”
Colonization - Belgium - Congo

Belgian colonial past: "This issue will come back and demand to be tackled”
Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD), is being prosecuted for

In Tunisia, the "falsified" report that threatens transitional justice
Indigenous peoples of Norway - Sami activists demonstrate in Oslo

Truth and reconciliation in Norway amidst a crisis of trust
Inscription on a portal (in Arabic and French):

Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future"
Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage

Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system
Women whose relatives have been victims of violence in the Central African Republic

Central African Republic: Truth Commission struggles to get off the ground
Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.

Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission
Belgian Colonial Past - Black and white photo in which King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium are sitting on armchairs carried by Congolese in traditional dress.

Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims
An installation in memory of the victims of the La Gabarra massacre in Colombia: a colorful spiral made of candles, flowers and sheets of paper on which the names of the victims have been written.

Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to
Gambian President Adama Barrow sits in a chair at an international diplomatic event. In the foreground: a small flag of Gambia.

Gambia: hope for justice fades 9 months after the Truth Commission report
Ensa Badgie prepares to testify (book in hand) at a Gambia Truth Commission (TRCC) hearing, next to an employee

Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations
President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.

Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes
Father Francisco de Roux reads the report in Bogota.

The Truth Commission’s message to Colombia
Gambian Justice Minister Dawda Jallow speaks during a press conference on the Trutch Commission's report

Gambia validates Truth Commission's work and promises justice
Alejandro Valencia and Carlos Ospina speak about the truth in Colombia

Colombia: Tensions rise ahead of the Truth Commission’s report
During an event of the Truth Commission of Colombia, three ex-Colombian officers, standing on a platform, meet a woman (she is shaking hands with one of them). In the background, a large screen shows the words

Truth in Colombia: “Your sons were innocent people we murdered”
Yahya Jammeh and a

Gambia: Will the government prosecute returned Jammeh hit-men