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Denmark Apologizes After Involuntary Birth Control Scandal in Greenland

August 27, 2025August 27, 2025Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya TekeliComments Off on Denmark Apologizes After Involuntary Birth Control Scandal in Greenland

For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of mistreatment.

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Statue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown

August 6, 2025Ségolène Le StradicComments Off on Statue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown

An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered.

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Hudson’s Bay Stores to Close in Canada

June 1, 2025June 2, 2025IAN AUSTENComments Off on Hudson’s Bay Stores to Close in Canada

Bargain hunters picked over what was left at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remaining stores, part of a vast empire that was North America’s oldest company.

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Sotheby’s Postpones Auction of Buddhist Relics That India Tried to Block

May 6, 2025May 7, 2025Ali WatkinsComments Off on Sotheby’s Postpones Auction of Buddhist Relics That India Tried to Block

Jewels and holy relics were set to be auctioned by the family of a colonial-era English explorer. The Indian government said the collection wasn’t theirs to sell.

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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

April 27, 2025April 28, 2025ADAM NOSSITERComments Off on Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

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France Acknowledges Devastating Effect of Debt Imposed on Haiti for Freedom

April 17, 2025April 19, 2025Roger Cohen and Ségolène Le StradicComments Off on France Acknowledges Devastating Effect of Debt Imposed on Haiti for Freedom

After two centuries, a contrite tone from President Emmanuel Macron, though no talk of reparations for French actions that thwarted the development of its former colony.

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Greenland Races Into New Era Without Losing Grip on Inuit Traditions

March 21, 2025Jeffrey Gettleman and Ivor PrickettComments Off on Greenland Races Into New Era Without Losing Grip on Inuit Traditions

Amid dizzying changes caused by a warming climate and global attention, Greenlanders don’t want to have to choose between embracing the future and honoring their heritage.

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5 Women Win Reparations From Belgium for Crimes Under Colonial Rule

December 2, 2024Jenny Gross and Elian PeltierComments Off on 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.

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80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France

December 1, 2024December 1, 2024Elian Peltier and Saikou JammehComments Off on 80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegal’s new government won’t abide the mystery.

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Torture Is a Russian Tactic in Occupied Ukraine, Civilians Say

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024Carlotta Gall and Oleksandr ChubkoComments Off on Torture Is a Russian Tactic in Occupied Ukraine, Civilians Say

Moscow is employing a variety of tactics, including torture and forced Russian citizenship, to try to obliterate Ukrainian identity, former detainees and human rights groups say.

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