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Reparations frameworks agreed by the AU and CARICOM, the return of looted cultural property, and debt and climate justice. Every entry quotes and links its source.
Adopted by AU heads of state at the 37th Ordinary Assembly (February 2024) under Assembly/AU/Dec.884(XXXVII), following a proposal from the 2023 Accra Reparations Conference.
decided pursuant to Assembly/AU/Dec.884(XXXVII) that the theme of the Year for 2025 will be
Adopted at the Accra Reparations Conference (14–17 November 2023). Calls for an AU Committee of Experts on Reparations, an Africa-based Global Reparations Fund, an AU Special Envoy on Reparations and a common African position on the restitution of cultural property.
Establishment of a Global Reparations Fund
Approved unanimously by CARICOM nations meeting in St Vincent. Its ten points: full formal apology, repatriation, an indigenous peoples development programme, cultural institutions, the public health crisis, illiteracy eradication, an African knowledge programme, psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and debt cancellation.
A meeting of CARICOM nations in St Vincent has approved unanimously a ten-point plan.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock handed over 22 Benin Bronzes in Abuja as a first step under an agreement covering all 1,130 artefacts in German collections.
22 objects returned; 1,130 covered
It was wrong to take them, but it was also wrong to keep them
The transfer act was signed at the Élysée on 9 November 2021 and the 26 works reached Benin the next day, 129 years after they were taken.
26 objects
les trésors royaux d’Abomey, ont retrouvé leur terre d’origine, le mercredi 10 novembre 2021