German town bans memorials to Nazi victims
By Bethany Bell September 26, 2026 Credit : BBC There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis. Germany's Education Minister Karin Prien told newspaper Bild that the ban was a "scandal". Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims
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Israeli aid group opens clinic for children in Gaza
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Philippines Drug War Victims Seek Justice
By Barnaby Lo August 14, 2026 Families of drug war victims testify before the Truth Commission, seeking answers and closure after years of silence. Luzviminda Siapo (L), whose son Raymart is believed to have been a victim of an extrajudicial killing in March 2017 during former President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-illegal drugs campaign, reacts at the close of a Truth Commission session at a Catholic facility in Manila, Philippines, August 14, 2026 [Rolex Dela Pena/EPA] Manila, Ph
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Brazil court orders Indigenous land recognition
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Genocide Descendants Want N$17 Trillion
By Justicia Shipena June 21, 2026 Source: The Namibian Ovaherero and Nama genocide descendants are demanding N$17 trillion in reparations, rejecting the current Namibia-Germany negotiations as inadequate and exclusionary. The Okandjoze Chiefs Assembly for Genocide says the current negotiations between Namibia and Germany have failed to deliver justice. Reverend Ebson Kaapama, a member of the Maharero Royal Traditional Authority and technical committee member of the Okandjoze
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Jun 21
Belgium tries ex-Belgian diplomat for murder of Lumumba
Family of the then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcomed the decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘the beginning of a reckoning.’ 17th March 2026 Soldiers stand guard over Patrice Lumumba (right) and his associate Joseph Okito after their arrest in December 1960. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state,
Colombia's Historic Apology for State-Led Extermination
By Josep Freixes - November 10, 2025 Gustavo Petro presided over the public ceremony in which the state apologized to the victims for the extermination of the left in the 1980s and 1990s. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. In the city of Santa Marta, during the Fourth Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, the Colombian state on Sunday made public an act of acknowledgment and apology to the victims of the extensive proce
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Nov 9, 2025
Peru: Forced Sterilisation Case to be Heard in Court
Celia Ramos was one of thousands of women subjected to government’s brutal policy in the 1990s. A ruling by the Inter-American Court of...
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Jul 13, 2025
Brazil and Paraguay: Need to restore land to Guaraní
Photo by Jorge Servín On 24 March, it was formally agreed that Itaipú Binacional should finance the purchase of 3,000 hectares of land in...
Amnesty International
Jul 4, 2025
Rwanda Country Report 2025
Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, a Tutsi, greets Fredrick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide, in...
Genocide Watch
Apr 13, 2025
In Rwandan Reconciliation Villages, Hope for Forgiveness
In Rwandan reconciliation villages, hope for forgiveness Associated Press April 6, 2024 By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA ...
Genocide remains are found on Namibia’s Shark Island
Researchers say more bodies of Herero and Nama people from early 20th century German concentration camp could be in waters around port...
The Guardian
Sep 27, 2024
