#Historical Justice

Articles (7)

• 🇬🇧 Belgian court sends ex-diplomat, 93, to trial over 1961 murder of Congo leader — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Family of then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcome decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘beginning of a reckoning’ </p><p>A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the...

  Related: #Colonial Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Ex-Belgian diplomat ordered to stand trial over murder of Congo’s Lumumba — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Etienne Davignon, 93, is the only one alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader's family of complicity.

  Related: #Colonial Legacy
• 🇬🇧 Belgian court clears way for trial over 1961 killing of Congo PM Lumumba — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Etienne Davignon, a 93-year-old ex-diplomat, is accused of involvement in the assassination of the independence hero.

  Related: #Colonial Legacy
• 🇺🇸 House Adopts Bill to Ease Recovery by Heirs of Nazi Looted Art — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The Senate had already passed an extension of the so-called HEAR Act, which is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk.

  Related: #Art Restitution
• 🇺🇸 Slavery Photos of Renty Get a ‘Final Resting Place,’ Ending a Fight With Harvard — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  The images of a father known as Renty and his daughter Delia will be honored today in a ceremony by their new steward, a museum in South Carolina.

  Related: #Repatriation
• 🇬🇧 Spain to formally pardon 53 women incarcerated by Franco regime — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Thousands of girls were locked up by Board for the Protection of Women for ‘rehabilitation’ </p><p>Spain is to formally pardon a group of 53 women who are among thousands who were incarcerated by t...

  Related: #Political Reconciliation
• 🇬🇧 ‘We want to give them their names back’: the team identifying Europe’s forgotten female murder victims — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Interpol’s DNA unit is helping bring closure to families of murder victims, whose names may be unknown for decades</p><p>In the shadow of Antwerp’s main arena, close to the city’s docklands, runs t...

  Related: #Gender Violence