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We are a research project that studies new calls for #reparations around the world. We are based at the #anthropology dept. of @uva.nl and funded by the EU. Check out our open-access lecture series, publications and more here: www.reparationsres.eu
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Our latest REPAIR lecture by activist Tina Cordova is now available open access on our website & YouTube.

Watch it now and learn about the fight for #justice & #reparations for nuclear harm in New Mexico ⬇️

www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation — REPAIR
New Mexico is the birthplace of nuclear weapons, and the site of the first nuclear bomb detonation on earth – the ‘Trinity Test.’ The state's ‘cradle-to-grave' nuclear complex – from uranium mining, t...
www.reparationsresearch.eu
Interested in #reparations & #activism? Watch our latest lecture recording in which grassroots activist Tina Cordova shares her experience fighting for #justice in New Mexico.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"Here at the doorstep of our Constitutional home, justice seems far to reach us" - It has been two years since dozens of elderly South Africans started camping outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding #reparations for suffering under apartheid.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Two-year S.African sit-in for reparations says still ignored
Dozens of elderly people who have camped outside South Africa's Constitutional Court for two years to demand reparations for their suffering under apartheid had hoped the just-ended G20 summit would…
www.france24.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Join us on 26 November in The Hague for the festive 10th version of the annual @tmcasser.bsky.social lecture with Spinoza Prize winner Prof. Joyeeta Gupta. She will speak on protecting the public interest in times of climate change. @uva-fmg.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4rm7dLO #ClimateChange
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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1/37. ⚡️RAPID REACTION ⚡️: #COP30 ended yesterday in Belém, Brazil! What was achieved on #LossAndDamage? 🔥 Has the COP of Truth 🔎 made enough progress on urgently scaling up #LossAndDamage support? 💰🏗️❤️‍🩹
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Lundi 24/11 à 19:00 en direct sur Twitch/Arte, PY Bocquet, dir adj FME, sera avec Seumboy Vrainom (@histoires-crepues.bsky.social) MaghriBantou & Mathilde Damoisel, réalisatrice du doc "Le Sucre: Pour la douceur et pour le pire", pr parler économie, mondialisation, esclavage... et révolution(s). 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Keen to learn more about #reparations? Watch recordings of past REPAIR lectures now on YouTube! Speakers explored:

🌏 #Climate change & repair
🎓 Reparative #justice in #education
📷 Photography as reparative #research
☢️ Reparations for #nuclear harm

Watch here:
🔗 www.youtube.com/@reparations...
REPAIR
REPAIR is a research project funded by the European Union (2024-2029) and hosted at the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). We study new calls for reparations that address ma...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Within the frame of a 'historic' first official visit, the Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC) travelled to the UK to "strengthen strategic partnerships and increase public knowledge about the region’s colonial past and its #reparations movements".

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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1/10. ⚡️BREAKING⚡️: We need #COP31 to deliver real progress on #ClimateFinance 💰, a #JustTransition ⚖️, #LossAndDamage 🔥 and phasing out #FossilFuels 🚫🛢️.
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#Reparations are the #AU theme 2025, yet Europe’s readiness to address colonial legacies remains questionable at least. @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social and Ueli Stager discuss how historical accountability shapes trust & legitimacy in #AUEU relations.

Read more, here: t1p.de/i9vpo
Coming to Terms with the Past? Reparations as a Test for Africa-Europe Relations
The African Union has chosen “Reparations” as its theme for 2025. Although the colonial past is a sensitive issue in Africa-Europe relations,...
www.megatrends-afrika.de
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Following Pope Francis' 2022 apology for the church’s role in residential schools in Canada, and years of #reparations demands from Indigenous communities, the Vatican has recently returned 62 Indigenous artefacts removed under colonial rule.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Vatican returns 62 items taken from Indigenous communities in Canada
Pope Leo gifts the objects to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops after meeting their representatives.
www.aljazeera.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Our latest REPAIR lecture by activist Tina Cordova is now available open access on our website & YouTube.

Watch it now and learn about the fight for #justice & #reparations for nuclear harm in New Mexico ⬇️

www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation — REPAIR
New Mexico is the birthplace of nuclear weapons, and the site of the first nuclear bomb detonation on earth – the ‘Trinity Test.’ The state's ‘cradle-to-grave' nuclear complex – from uranium mining, t...
www.reparationsresearch.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
As victims of Sheikh Hasina's rule continue to await #justice & #reparations, Bangladeshi rights groups remain concerned about the continuing trend of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

Find a detailed summary of the current situation here:
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
New rulers, old killers: Bangladesh extrajudicial deaths mount under Yunus
More than a year after PM Hasina's ousting, unlawful killings and disappearances - features of her rule - continue.
www.aljazeera.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Join us in one hour for a talk with Tina Cordova on #reparations for #nuclearharm
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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1/2. 📢During the opening plenary of #COP30, the 2024 joint annual report (JAR) of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM) and the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage.

🔗Find it here: assets.santiago-network.org/Common/Docum...
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Job for all you UK #Reparations researchers out there: jrct.org.uk/job-vacancies
Vacancy: Head of reparations
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Join us for an online lecture next Tuesday at 5pm on #reparations for #nuclearharm in New Mexico. We will hear from grassroots activist Tina Cordova
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
☢️ There are still a couple of days left to register for our next online lecture:

Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.

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Join us next Tuesday for an online lecture on 'Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation' by Downwinder & grassroots activist Tina Cordova.

📅 11 November, 5pm CET
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation — REPAIR
www.reparationsresearch.eu
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As part of a new wave of cross-border #climate litigation, Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods demand compensation & plan to sue two of Germany’s most polluting companies: energy firm RWE and cement producer Heidelberg Materials.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage
Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Great breakdown of the main obstacles to turning frozen Russian assets into a #reparations loan to Ukraine in light of upcoming talks between Belgium & the EU Commission happening this Friday.

www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Russian assets dispute triggers crisis meeting between EU Commission, Belgium
Officials launch new bid to break the political deadlock over a €140B reparations loan to Ukraine.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Interesting new blog discussing a structural approach to #climate #reparations by addressing debt & "the financial subordination of the Global South" by @mpetel.bsky.social.

You can read it here:
verfassungsblog.de/toward-struc...
Toward Structural Climate Reparations?
verfassungsblog.de
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Join us next Tuesday for an online lecture on 'Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation' by Downwinder & grassroots activist Tina Cordova.

📅 11 November, 5pm CET
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation — REPAIR
www.reparationsresearch.eu
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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1/11. 📢 COP 30 KEY MESSAGES: Ahead of the start of @cop30brazil.bsky.social, which will take place from 10 to 21 November, 2025, in Belém, Brazil, we have prepared key messages on #LossAndDamage. 🔥

🔗Read them here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Brand new blog from our PhD, Tabitha Hrynick: "From the Screen to the Heart: Art, Storytelling, and the Demand for Nuclear Justice" ☢️

Live now, read it here:
www.reparationsresearch.eu/blog/screent...

#Reparations #EnvironmentalJustice #Trinity #DownWinders #Mining #NewMexico
From the Screen to the Heart: Art, Storytelling, and the Demand for Nuclear Justice — REPAIR
Tabitha Hrynick reflects on reparations for nuclear harm in New Mexico.
www.reparationsresearch.eu
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A statue commemorating LGBT military personnel is unveiled by King Charles after decades-long campaign against ban on being gay in the armed forces. Activists hope that it can "encourage veterans who have not yet come forward to apply for #reparations".

www.bbc.com/news/article...
King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign
A memorial is unveiled dedicated to gay military personnel and to those who served during the armed forces gay ban.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM