No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
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Royal relics in Madagascar confer legitimacy on rulers.
Laws put in place after the war aimed to return stolen belongings and offer war damages to victims. In reality, many Jewish families faced lengthy waits and legal hurdles.
For the Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, the Hinematioro Pou is the material presence of an ancestor.
Language shapes power and words like restitution, unlike repatriation, speak directly to justice when it comes to returning cultural heritage.
Jobs, the digital economy, heritage restitution and the climate crisis are highlighted by an Africa-led G20.
Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, slavery and other atrocities.
Even with the best of intentions, restitution is not a fast process.
Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
Thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps, and the British imperialist government tried to cover up brutal violations that occurred there.
The restitution of looted objects from former colonies in Africa is an essential component of post-colonial reparation.
The huge gathering of policymakers focused on culture’s crucial role in sustainable development.
Momentum is growing for the restitution of objects, such as the Benin Bronzes, stolen during colonialism. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Art stolen from African kingdoms is a knowledge system plundered by colonialists, who must take historical responsibility.
While some German museums are returning some of the famous Benin Bronzes, most remain in museums in the UK and the US even as calls for restitution grow.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
A survey shows that support for land reform in South Africa differs according to race.
South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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