Table of contents
Arborescence
- Climate Justice and Reparations
- Multiples mais invisibles : les demandes de réparations pour les crimes coloniaux dans la région des Grands Lacs
- Pursuing an African Agenda for Reparations for Colonial Crimes and Slavery
- Research & Impact
- Mobilize & Act
- MobLabs
- Campaigns
- Métis of the Great Lakes
- Climate Justice and Reparations
- 25 July 2025 | The ICJ Opinion: A New Era for Climate Governance Rooted in Reparations?
- 25 juillet 2025 | L’opinion de la Cour Internationale de Justice: une nouvelle ère pour la gouvernance climatique fondée sur les réparations ?
- 2–3 June 2025 | Advancing Climate Reparations at Pretoria Conference
- May 30 2025 | Climate Litigation Case Study: Landmark Climate Ruling: Saul Lliuya v RWE
- 20-21 May 2025 | 4th Convening of the Africa Movement Building Space
- 5 May 2025 | 'Loss and Damage, Liability and the Case for Reparations'
- April 2025 | Climate Reparations Conference at The University of Montréal.
- May 30 2025 | Rejecting Green Colonialism at the Africa Movement Building Space
- Submissions
- Public Statements
- AfaRise
- Gender Violence
- Decolonize Justice! A perspective on the role of international development policies and citizens’ experience of justice institutions
- Global Racial Inequality Dashboard
- About us
- AfaLives
- Socio-economic Violence
- Multiple But Invisible: Reparations Demands For Colonial Crimes In The Great Lakes Region
- The Latest
- Cultural Heritage
- Les réparations pour les crimes coloniaux de l’Europe en Afrique et pour l’esclavage : Une étape clé pour relever les défis contemporains du continent africain
- Support us
- Reparations for Europe’s Colonial Crimes in Africa and Slavery: A Critical Step in Tackling Africa’s Contemporary Challenges
- The Accra Summit and reparations for historical and contemporary racial violence
- Podcasts
- Litigating for reparations? A double-edged sword for mixed-race victims of Belgium’s colonial administration
- Parce que les excuses ne suffisent pas — CBAI
- Privacy policy
- Cultural Anthropology: Sustaining the Momentum
- Legals mentions
- Sitemap
- 2021-2022 Fellows Spotlight
- Social Media
Current Projects
- African Futures Lab support to the African Union ECOSOCC Climate Change Working Group (CCWG)
- Black women in contemporary European and African societies: challenging colonial representations
- Festival "Wakati Wetu" It's our time for reparations (Kenya)
- Mothers and Métis children from DRC, Burundi and Rwanda against the Belgian State
Events
- Archives
- COP30 in Belém, Brazil
- Wakati Wetu Festival (Kenya)
- Webinar: From Courts to COP Harnessing Legal Momentum for African Climate Reparations
- Amplifying Voices and Building Alliances for Reparatory Justice
- Online Debate 3: Advancing Climate Justice
- Online Debate 1: Taking a Historical View of Climate Reparations
- Online Debate 2: Amplifying the Voices of the Most Vulnerable & Youth
- Online debate - "Taking a Historical View of Climate Reparations: addressing Climate Debt"
- Roundtable Conference: The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Racial and Reparations Justice in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Conférence : Mères africaines et leurs enfants métis enlevés par l'administration coloniale belge : quelles avancées vers la justice les réparations ?
- Conference: African Mothers and their Métis Children abducted by the Belgian Colonial Administration: What Progress Towards Justice and Reparations?
- AfaLive #3
- AfaLive #2
- AfaLive #1: Tunisie
News
- Public Statement on the Addis Ababa Declaration from the Second Africa Climate Summit
- Webinar - From Courts to COP: Harnessing Legal Momentum for African Climate Reparations
- “We must move beyond the model of aid and embrace the paradigm of reparations.”
- Wakati Wetu Festival (Kenya)
- New Look, Same Purpose: Introducing Our Evolved Brand Identity
- African Futures Lab Participates in Inaugural AJJF Reparatory Justice Surgery
- AfaRise Fellowship Program
- Programme de fellowship d'African Futures Lab (2025-2027)
- AU-EU Expert Seminar on Transitional Justice. Theme: Reparations and Transitional Justice-Perspectives and Approaches from Africa and Europe, Abuja, Nigeria
- L’Afrique demande des « réparations » pour la colonisation et la traite négrière
- New Research Project in Gender and Racial Justice
- Dr. Patrick Toussaint joins the AU ECOSOCC Climate Change Working Group (CCWG)
- African-Caribbean Conference on Reparations
- Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss
- Communiqué sur la commission mixte pour Haïti et le cas des réparations
- Joint submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on reparations for the enslavement on Africans and its ongoing harms
- Public statement on joint commission for Haiti and the case for reparations
- Job Opening: Administrative, Finance, and Logistics Officer
- Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss
- Job Opening: Events Assistant
- Annonce de recrutement: Chercheur·e dans le domaine de la justice raciale et de genre (consultant.e )
- Job Opening: Events Intern
- Job Opening: Gender and Racial Justice Researcher
- Job Opening: Racial Justice Campaigner
- How realistic is the African Union’s call for reparatory justice?
- Thanks to Trump, it is now in Europe’s self-interest to compensate Africa for slavery
- AfaLab's 2023 Annual Report
- Belgium Condemned for Crimes Against Humanity
- Job Opening: Climate Justice Research an Policy Adviser
- Job Opening: Communication Officer
- African Futures Lab and Amnesty International Joint Press Release
- International Financial Institutions Rooted in the Intrinsic Link between Colonialism and Capitalism
- Africans and people of African descent call on Europe to reckon with their colonial legacies
- How to Finance Climate Reparations
- Climate Reparations MobLab
- International Law, Regulations & Negotiations
- Activism, Narratives & Media Representation:
- From responsibility to reparations of the climate crisis:
- Unlocking Climate Reparations
- Debt Cancellation Is Not Enough!
- Accra Roundtable Conference
- Brussels Conference
- Geneva Conference
- The Third Session of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent in Geneva, April 16-19, 2024
- AfaLab’s Recommendations
- 70 Years of Fighting for Justice and Reparations!
- Métis abandonnés dans la région des Grands Lacs par l'administration coloniale belge : des voix qui demandent à être entendues
- Plus de 70 ans de lutte pour la justice et les réparations !
- A global campaign for justice and reparations for the Métis and their African Mothers
- African voices in the restitution of human remains and cultural artefacts
- Meaningful participation of civil society and state actors in international negotiations concerning the climate reparations fund
- Repairing our international economic order
- Sustaining racial justice: Black Tunisians seeking redress for slavery legacy
- Métis of the Great Lakes MobLab
- Job Opening: Program Assistant
- Multiples mais invisibles
- AfaLab and Reform Initiatives: Forging a Transnational Partnership for Reparative Justice in Europe and Africa
- Decolonize Justice!
- West Africa Mobilization Lab on Reparations
- Multiple But Invisible:
- Europe's hollow apologies for colonial crimes stand in the way of genuine reparation
- Les réparations pour les crimes coloniaux de l’Europe en Afrique et pour l’esclavage :
- Statement on the outpouring of murderous violence in Israel and Palestine
- Reparations for Europe’s Colonial Crimes in Africa and Slavery:
- Job Opening: Advocacy and Policy Officer
- Post opening: Researcher on climate reparations in East Africa
- AfaLab's 2022 Annual Report
- “La montagne qui a accouché d’une souris” :
- Onè ak jistis:
- Offre de poste : Chercheur.e sur les réparations pour les crimes coloniaux au Cameroun
- Post opening: Researcher on reparations for colonial crimes in Cameroon
- Le scandale du chlordécone et la continuité des violences coloniales en Martinique et en Guadeloupe
- Reparations to restore dignity:
- The need for an intersectional approach to fighting racism in Italy
- En quête de respect et de justice :
- Litigating for reparations?
- Parce que les excuses ne suffisent pas - CBAI
- Sihem Bensedrine
- Reclaiming space and being guided by our foremothers’ voices
- Menna Agha
- “Notre force est dans l’amour" :
- Magali Bessone
- Working with, through, and around silences in the debate on race in France
- Liepollo Lebohang Pheko
- “La mémoire ne vaut pas justice”:
- Fania Noёl
- Reparations for mixed-race children abducted by Belgium in its former colonies:
- Building a Global African movement for reparations and racial healing
- Mame-Fatou Niang
- Décoloniser le développement international et repenser la solidarité
- Épisode 0 - Introduction à Futur Antérieur
- Episode 0 - Introduction to Future Perfect
- Accra Declaration on Reparations and Racial Healing
- Réparer et guérir les blessures raciales: la Déclaration d’Accra
- Advancing Justice: Reparations and Racial Healing Summit in Accra
- AfaLab joins delegation of global reparations leaders of the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing at the Vatican
- Tracking Our Movement in 2021
- Sustaining the Momentum: Reparative Justice for European Colonialism and Slavery
- Workshop on Land and Reparative Justice
- “Slavery as Ecocide”: Beyond the Double Fracture of Modernity
- From the Colonial Past to Today’s Anti-Black Racism in Belgium: Modalities of Change
- Introduction: Sustaining the Momentum
- Justice in Word Only? Addressing Racism and the Colonial Past in the UK
- On the Very Political Depoliticization of Reparations
- Reparations Claims for Slavery in France: The Need for a Paradigm Shift
- Sustaining the Momentum: Reparative Justice for European Colonialism and Slavery
- The Pursuit of Justice against Colonial Repression by the Mau Mau in Kenya
- Tracing Those Colonial Chains That Hinder Our Present
- Transitional Justice to Address Colonial Legacies: Decolonizing Transitional Justice First?
- What Does Justice Sound Like?
- Why Imprison? Contemporary Incarceration Policies from a (Post)Colonial Perspective, By Arnaud Dandoy and Romain Ravet
- Utiliser les archives dans la reconnaissance du passé colonial de la Belgique — MIT OpenCourseWare
- Responsabilité de l'État pour les injustices historiques devant les institutions internationales — MIT OpenCourseWare
- Transitional Justice and Belgium’s Colonial Past with CACOBURWA
- France's Colonial Violence In Algeria
- The relevance of transitional justice tools to address colonial crimes — MIT OpenCourseWare
- Historical Background on the case for reparations concerning colonial violence in Algeria
- Violences coloniales en Algérie: Quelles possibilités d'actions judiciaires? — MIT OpenCourseWare
- Workshop: Reparations For Slavery And Colonization: Contemporary Movements For Justice, September-December 2021
- Justice Now? Symposium
Job offers
Team
- Yasmine Abdillahi
- Menna Agha
- Cecilia Akinyi
- Noureddine Amara
- Sihem Bensedrine
- Magali Bessone
- CaCoBuRwa Collective
- Matt Dann
- Michel DeGraff
- Amah Edoh
- Malcom Ferdinand
- Hélène Himmer
- Geneviève Kaninda
- African Futures Lab
- Liepollo Lebohang Pheko
- Martin Mavenjina
- Wezi Msisha
- Daisy Mukasa
- Deborah Mukundwa
- Anita Munyaneza
- Kenda Mutongi
- Shaany N'sondé
- Lavender Namdiero
- Mame-Fatou Niang
- Eva Njoki Munyiri
- Fania Noel
- Elisa Novic
- Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka
- Mireille-Tsheusi Robert
- Anna Sarr
- Nabeelah Shabbir
- Bettina Stoetzer
- Kate Theriault
- Patrick Toussaint, PhD
- Liliane Umubyeyi, PhD
- Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
- Lionel Zevounou
Organisations
- Amnesty International
- Association des Métis des Grands Lacs (Burundi)
- Economic Social & Cultural Council
- Fondation de France
- Ghana Youth Environmental Movement
- Global Black
- Noesya
- Open society foundations
- Othering and Belonging Institute
- Reform Initiatives
- Sciences Po
- Université Libre de Bruxelles
- University of Victoria
- West Africa Civil Society Institute