Return and don't procrastinate
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- Published: 26 September 2019
Colonialism Reparation asks the repatriation of the remains and the permanent restitution of the treasures looted by former colonizers as a first step in the direction of the Reparation of the damages of the colonialism, stopping to procrastinate about a necessary step of the human evolution.
Return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius immediately
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- Published: 25 July 2019
Colonialism Reparation welcomes that the United Nations General Assembly has confirmed that the process of decolonisation of Mauritius was not lawfully completed giving the United Kingdom six months to withdraw its colonial administration from the Chagos Archipelago unconditionally and requests that the United Kingdom present apologies and compensations for the deportation of the original inhabitants and the whole period of British colonial rule.
The EU opens to reparations
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- Published: 23 May 2019
Colonialism Reparation welcomes that the European Parliament has approved by a large majority the resolution on the "Fundamental rights of people of African descent" recognising the current situation of structural racism and asks that the former colonising Member States follow the call for apologies and compensations for the colonial period, bearing in mind its lasting impact in the present.
Return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius
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- Published: 21 March 2019
Colonialism Reparation welcomes that the International Court of Justice has decided that the process of decolonization of Mauritius has not been lawfully completed and that the United Kingdom has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago and requests that the United Kingdom present apologies and compensations for the deportation of the original inhabitants and the whole period of British colonial rule.
Definitive restitutions on the horizon
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- Published: 24 January 2019
Colonialism Reparation welcomes that the "Report on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage" commissioned by the President of France recommends the definitive restitution of the treasures looted during the colonial period and asks that all former colonizers move in this direction as a first step of the Reparation of the damages of the colonialism.
Kanaky - New Caledonia must be independent
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- Published: 23 November 2018
Colonialism Reparation supports the independence of Kanaky - New Caledonia and calls for France to present apologies and compensations for the colonial period.
Reparations, not only repatriation of remains
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- Published: 27 September 2018
Colonialism Reparation asks that Germany, beyond the repatriation of Herero and Nama remains, present apologies and compensations to Namibia for the genocide.
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