COLONIALISM REPARATION

So that colonialisms of yesterday and today are not repeated tomorrow

Reparations to First Nations, Inuit and Métis

Colonialism Reparation welcomes the agreements-in-principle of 40 billion Canadian dollars to compensate native children who have continued to be taken away from their families in recent decades and to reform in the long term the discriminatory system of child services and asks that France, the United Kingdom and Canada present apologies and compensations for the entire colonial and apartheid period.

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Progress on restitutions

Colonialism Reparation asks the repatriation of the remains and the definitive restitution of the treasures looted by former colonizers as a first step in the direction of the Reparation of the damages of colonialism, stopping to hinder an inevitable passage of human evolution.

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Non-participation in the Kanaky - New Caledonia referendum

Colonialism Reparation supports the non-participation in the referendum of December 12, 2021, a farcical consultation of self-determination without the colonized population, as a step towards the independence of Kanaky - New Caledonia and calls for France to present apologies and compensations for the colonial period.

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Reparations at the United Nations

Colonialism Reparation welcomes that the issue of reparations begins to be debated with consensus at the United Nations and condemns the boycott of the twentieth anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (Durban IV) by some Member States.

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Reparations for the Herero and Nama genocide

Colonialism Reparation rejects the so-called "Reconciliation Agreement" inspired by Germany and accepted by Namibia and asks that Germany present sincere apologies and adequate reparations for the colonial genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples.

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United States: Reparations Are Coming

Colonialism Reparation welcomes that in the United States of America reparations are gaining more and more acceptance and invites all the other federal, state and local administrations to take action in the same direction.

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Reparations at the World Social Forum 2021

The theme of reparations at the 2021 World Social Forum was treated in the workshop Reparations to Colonialism, in the workshop Interculturalism, Decolonization and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the workshop Coalitions, Convergences and Reparation against Racism and in the Agora of the Futures. In these activities participated about one hundred people, many of whom representatives of other organizations. It was made a point of the situation on the reparations in recent years trying to identify actions most promising for the future.

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