Worker rights: Bangladesh fire survivors fear destitution after depot explosion
MD TAHMID ZAMI and IFTEKHAR UDDIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the aftermath of the container depot fire near Chittagong in Bangladesh…
Canada reaches agreement to compensate Indigenous children taken from families
Toronto, CanadaReuters Canada announced on Tuesday two agreements totalling $C40 billion to compensate First Nations children who were taken from their families and put into the child welfare system and to reform the system that removed them and deprived them of services they needed. The agreements include $C20 billion for potentially hundreds of thousands of […]
US to pay $US88 million to families, victims of Charleston church massacre
Washington DC, USAP Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $US88 million, which includes $US63 million for the families of the nine […]
Brazil’s anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation After rescuing two Bolivian women held as slaves in a home in Sao Paulo last year and recouping the wages they were owed, officials faced an unexpected problem: there was too much money. The abusive employer – who recruited the women from a human trafficker then forced them to […]
Addressing historic racism: Faithful Black descendants hope reparations after Florida massacre will be a model
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on how moves to offer reparations for an historic massacre in the little-known majority-Black enclave of Rosewood, Florida, is being seen as a model for others…
“Moral responsibility”: A decade after UN-linked cholera outbreak, Haitians demand justice
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on Haitians’ fight for compensation from the UN in the wake of a cholera outbreak…
Christian leaders debate Zimbabwe’s reparations for white farmers
Religion UnpluggedHarare, Zimbabwe Christian leaders in Zimbabwe are cautiously optimistic that a recent government move to pay $US3.5 billion compensation to white farmers forced off their land in 1999 can revive a southern African country’s struggling economy by boosting its agricultural sector. The agreement is largely seen as an awkward ending to a years-long land dispute. Arguing […]
US hits Poland, others in Europe over Holocaust claims
Washington DC, US AP The United States is criticising a number of eastern and central European nations, including Poland, for failing to compensate Holocaust victims and their families and communities for property seized during Nazi occupation in World War II as the numbers of survivors dwindles due to age. In a report issued Wednesday, the […]
Campaigner’s death fuels calls for Britain to speed up ‘Windrush’ compensation
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The death of a prominent campaigner last week has increased pressure on Britain’s government to speed up compensation payments to thousands of “Windrush generation” Caribbean migrants who were wrongly identified as illegal immigrants. Paulette Wilson, 64, died just weeks after she and other Windrush activists went to parliament to present a […]
In India, child labour victims struggle to receive state compensation
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Rescued victims of child labour in India rarely receive state compensation, new data shows, as campaigners warned a government drive to boost support for slavery survivors was falling short. In 2016, the Indian government set a target of rescuing 18 million workers from bondage by 2030, increased the amount of cash […]