Reparations

Proposed legislation calls into question how far the current government is willing to go to help victims of the dictatorship find justice.

For over ten years, Angélica Macario has sought to preserve the archive of the Council for Ethnic Community Runujel Junam in a struggle to keep the memory of the genocide alive.

As the country shifts to the right and its new leaders fight amongst themselves, justice and reparations for the 2019 massacres come to a halt.

Prosecutors in Brazil are seeking reparations for decades-old human rights violations allegedly committed by Volkswagen in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.

At the University of the West Indies, the campaign to rename Milner Hall highlights a decolonial struggle for historic reparations.

On November 19, surviving family members of a 2003 massacre in El Alto are urging the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a $10 million judgement against Bolivia's former president and defense minister. 

A recent decision by U.S. courts brings justice closer for the dozens killed under President Gonzalo "Goni" Sánchez de Lozada.

As the Colombian peace talks proceed, some communities have attempted to move closer to resolving the country's decades-old violence by maintaining an active and credible distance from all major parties of the conflict.

Nation-states in the Global South have historically contributed the least to carbon-dioxide emissions but are especially vulnerable to the consequences of climatic shifts because of the damage wrought by extractive industries and the limited resources to cope with such damage.

Mexico's Senate and Chamber of Deputies unanimous approval of a law to alleviate the damage and suffering experienced by victims of state and criminal violence may turn out to be of enormous importance. It officially recognizes victims who have heretofore been seen simply as collateral damage in the war against illicit drugs, and official and organized crime.

Mexico’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies unanimous approval of a law to alleviate the damage and suffering experienced by victims of state and criminal violence may turn out to be of enormous importance. It officially recognizes victims who have heretofore been seen simply as collateral damage in the war against illicit drugs, and official and organized crime. 

State-sponsored crime is neither unique nor exceptional. In fact, as the prominent sociologist Charles Tilly pointed out, the history of the nation state has been violent. This violence has been harnessed over time to serve the interests of capital—as was the case of Europe. Colombia is no exception.