Belgium Crimes Colonial

5 Women Win Reparations From Belgium for Crimes Under Colonial Rule

In a landmark case, a court ruled that the women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were taken from their parents in Belgian Congo, were victims of a crime against humanity.

The New York Times - 1d

A Second-Rate Crime Gets a Second-Rate Pardon

At least Joe didn’t make Hunter ambassador to a major international ally.

The New York Times - 1d

Maternity Leave and Ongoing Consent: New Rights for Belgium’s Sex Workers

A groundbreaking law, which gives some sex workers greater labor protections and social benefits than similar legislation elsewhere in the world, is now in effect in the European country.

The New York Times - 22h

Hunter Biden and history’s most controversial pardons over financial crimes

Almost every president has pardoned someone that left critics howling. Here’s how Hunter Biden’s pardon stacks up with five of the most contentious acts of clemency for financial crimes.

MarketWatch - 21h

A Norwegian rapper suspected of drug crimes and assault is arrested in Poland

Poland's police say they have arrested and opened an extradition procedure for a Norwegian rapper who is wanted in his country for alleged drug crimes, causing bodily harm to a person and assault ...

ABC News - 1d

Belgian court rules against state in a landmark case addressing its colonial past

A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy