Haitian groups seek billions in reparations from France
Catarina Demony GENEVA, April 18 (Reuters) - France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return…
UN forum calls for more funding, steps towards slavery reparations
Catarina Demony April 16 (Reuters) - A United Nations forum on people of African descent opened on Tuesday with calls for extra funding to support its work and progress towards…
Descendants of enslaved, enslavers ‘break silence’ around France’s past
Catarina Demony NANTES, April 4 (Reuters) - Dieudonne Boutrin is a descendant of people enslaved in the Caribbean. Pierre Guillon de Prince's ancestors, from Nantes, were ship-owners transporting those enslaved.…
Haiti: Multinational mission and the ‘inexorable requirement to restore security conditions’
Media reports suggest that infrastructure for the mission is being put in place as supplies arrive by air into the capital, Port-au-Prince. Here’s what you need to know about what…
Largest vacuum opens to remove ‘climate pollution’ from air
Climeworks, a Swiss company, recently opened the world's largest direct air capture (DAC) plant in Hellisheiði, Iceland. The plant, named Mammoth, began operating on May 8 and is the second commercial DAC…
The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration By Ko Bragg Photographs by Olivia Joan Galli May 20, 2024, 7 AM ET Listen to more…
Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law
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Google and Harvard reveal detailed map of human brain
In a groundbreaking collaboration between Harvard University and Google, researchers have created the most detailed map of a human brain sample to date. The sample, obtained from a patient with…
Human Rights Violator Sentenced to Life in Prison in Rwanda
Munyenyezi was investigated by HSI New England for lying about her participation in the Rwandan genocide. WASHINGTON — A Rwandan national previously convicted in a landmark case in the United States…
Family of former British PM apologises for enslaver past in Guyana
The descendants of the former British prime minister William Gladstone have apologised for their family’s past as enslavers in Guyana and urged the UK to discuss reparations in the Caribbean. Gladstone’s…
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