This Friday, October 13, the Libourne public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation for human trafficking against seven people. Implicated for having employed dozens of people of Romanian origin in undignified conditions, including a 14-year-old minor, in the vineyards of Bordeaux, they were placed in pre-trial detention. Having come to work for one or two … Read more
20 Sep 2023 at 09:34 Secretary-General António Guterres wants countries to work on compensation for the history of slavery. According to him, this is appropriate, because the system has caused enormous damage on a human and economic level. Guterres writes in a report that no country has yet fully accounted for its own role in … Read more
Thomas Gladstones NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 22:45 Descendants of British 19th-century politician William Gladstone are traveling to Guyana this week to apologize for their ancestors’ role in slavery in that country. They also donate 100,000 pounds (117,000 euros) for the establishment of an institute in Guyana that will conduct research into the history of enslaved people, according … Read more
Jakarta – 700 dollar gold coins in 1840-1863 found behind the soil of corn fields in Kentucky, United States. The coins were found by local residents while digging in their fields earlier this year. “Absolutely absurd: the gold coins are denominations of 1, 20, 10 dollars,” said a resident whose name and location of the … Read more
Our partner OPEN Rotterdam goes live during the Keti Koti celebration in Rotterdam. This broadcast starts at the Schouwburgplein at 2:00 PM, where there is a program with performances on the Black Vibes Stage and an angisa folding workshop for children at De Doelen. The angisa is a colorful headgear, consisting of folded starched cloth. … Read more
Jul 01, 2023 at 2:38 PMUpdate: 11 minutes ago King Willem-Alexander has apologized for the Dutch slavery past. The king did so on Saturday afternoon in a speech during the National Remembrance Day of Slavery in Amsterdam. “For this crime against humanity, I ask forgiveness,” the king said. 0:50 Play button The king said that … Read more
By Afran Groenewoud and Danja Koeleman 01 July 2023 at 05:00 The pressure on King Willem-Alexander to apologize on Saturday during the annual commemoration of the slavery past is great. What can we expect from the king’s speech 150 years after the abolition of slavery? It is still unclear whether Willem-Alexander, following the government’s lead, … Read more
On Saturday it will be exactly 150 years ago that slavery in Suriname also ended in practice. A year of commemoration around the Dutch slavery past will also begin. A selection of how our country will reflect on the end of slavery this weekend. Slavery committees across the country organize commemorations and celebrations. The most … Read more
Several countries in America, especially Chile and Colombia, They are considering reforming by law the length of the working day, which in some places like Mexico reaches a grueling nine or ten hours a day. Peru opens tender for railway works for 250 million dollars Read more Especially in the big capitals, where most of … Read more
Rijksmuseum King Willem-Alexander we do research to the role of his family, the Van Oranje-Nassau family, in the colonial past. This covers the period from the late 16th century to the present. But what is actually already known? The Orange are known to have been involved in colonial rule in both the East (formerly Dutch … Read more