Angola Pushes Slavery Reparations at the UN, Though Not in Its Main Speech
Angola's First Lady told a UN-week forum that reparations are a right, not charity. The president left the issue out...
September 30, 2026Topic
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A UN Committee Says Governments Should Make Banks and Insurers Contribute Over Slavery
A UN committee asked governments to make banks, insurers and other institutions that profited from slavery contribute to reparations. The...
September 2, 2026
In the web of the WEF: “Smart City” secretly begins operation in the Netherlands
a city with 165,000 inhabitants in the province of Gelderland in the center of the country, has been transformed into...
June 15, 2022
Study details Christian missions’ catastrophic effect on Native Americans in California
Half of California's indigenous people lived longer than 47 years until the arrival of Spanish missionaries in 1769; half died...
July 6, 2021
Brazil’s anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) After rescuing two Bolivian women held as slaves in a home in...
February 17, 2021
Clip of Brazilian Woman Being Helped Across Flooded Street Generates Online Storm
A video of a man helping an old lady across a flooded street in Rio’s Copacabana neighborhood is generating enormous...
April 10, 2019
Brazil Struggles to Reduce Child Labor
Brazil will not achieve targets for the eradication of “worst forms” of child labor in the country by 2015, according...
June 4, 2013
The Death of the Forest is the End of Our Lives
Dorothy Stang, the 73-year-old American killed in the Amazon Basin in 2005, is remembered by a famous picture where she...
June 4, 2013
Cais do Valongo, Rio’s African Heritage
The Historical Circuit of African Heritage opened Cais do Valongo (Valongo Quays), where roughly one million slaves are thought to...
August 14, 2012