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...

Job for all you UK #Reparations researchers out there: jrct.org.uk/job-vacancies

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

☢️ 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. Read more ⬇️

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Interested in using visual and arts-based methods, and designing a research project with reparative potential? Watch our latest lecture 'Picturing Repair' by Dr. Saskia Duijs and learn more about photography & #repair. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYq2...

French court orders TotalEnergies to pay #reparations over false claims - NGOs call the ruling historic: “the first time in the world that a major oil and gas firm was found liable for misleading the public by greening its image". www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Interesting developments in the UK in line with rights of nature movements. Read here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Perenco, France's second-largest oil company, will be tried for environmental damages - heavy pollution, infertile soil and serious health impacts among residents - in DRC after investigations reveal 167 incidents linked to its operations. www.journalismfund.eu/news/case-op...

1/3.⏳In 8️⃣ DAYS, the Scottish Governement 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 — the world’s first mover on #LossAndDamage finance — will share what it learned at the launch🚀of a new report🔬 “Lessons From the Frontlines: Learning From Scotland’s Leadership on Loss and Damage Finance”. 🧐 Open to all. 2 sessions. Register ⬇️

Five years and counting: Victims & families of Nigeria's #EndSARS protest violence are still waiting for justice, collective truth-telling and compensation. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

'Regulation, redistribution & #reparations' - Great commentary on fossil fuel industry PR with a twist on the slogan 'reduce, reuse, recycle' from @alexlenferna.bsky.social. theconversation.com/reduce-reuse...

Regardless of last week's fragile ceasefire agreement, South Africa emphasized the importance of the ICJ's genocide case and the need for Israeli #reparations for Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Complex debate unfolds around California's Democratic governor rejecting a recent #reparations bill which would have allowed universities to give preference to applicants descended from enslaved people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The EU is looking to renew sanctions against Russia, develop a concrete plan for a #reparations loan to Ukraine which does not count towards deficit & debt levels, and get G7 powers to apply similar mechanisms for frozen Russian assets - says Economy Commissioner. www.reuters.com/business/eu-...

A powerful recent piece on Tuvalu in relation to rising sea levels, #ClimateFinance and climate #reparations: "You pollute, you pay" Read here: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Tomorrow in Berlin @felixundstein.bsky.social and colleagues will discuss ‘Defending the Right to Health’ - no registration needed, in-person only. 📅14 October, 9.30 CET 📍Staatsbibliothek Berlin More info: www.plattformglobalegesundheit.de/defending-th...

Interesting recent brief on #ClimateFinance & #LossAndDamage around the question of community access. @lossanddamage.bsky.social www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/cl...

Great summary of #reparations debates in the UK for British Black History Month by the Guardian and @kojokoram.bsky.social using the framing 'architecture of inequality'. Read it here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Join us today in person or online at 2pm CET for a lecture on how to use #photography as part of #reparative social science research. The lecture will be given by Dr Saskia Duijs from the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Sign up here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/rep...

There is still time to register for tomorrow's hybrid lecture on reparative research & photography happening at 2pm CET. ⬇️ www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/rep...

Optics vs. accountability, and a culture of impunity: Survivors and rights groups call for recognition, justice and #reparations for families of US drone attack victims in Somalia. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

1/11. 📢 KEY MESSAGES: The seventh meeting of the Board (B7) of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage (FRLD) 🔥⛈️🌊 starts next week! ⏰ 🔗Read our key messages here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke... [ @fillthefund.bsky.social , @ciel.org , @canclimateaction.bsky.social ]

Interesting online special issue launch & event on 'Reparative Futures: exploring justice, #reparations and education' co-organised by the wonderful Prof. @arathings.bsky.social. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/repar...

Fantastic lecture by @Prof. Luke Moffett on whether #reparations make sense in today's 'age of impunity'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klzO... Fore more lectures go to www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures @reparationsres.bsky.social

Register now for our next hybrid lecture 'Picturing #Repair: Fostering a reparative research practice through photography' by Dr Saskia Duijs, focusing on relational & collaborative research practices. 📅 7 October, 2pm CET 📍 UvA & online 🔗 Register here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/rep...

An open letter urges COP30 organisers to link #climate crisis with #reparations for historical crimes: "The climate crisis did not arise recently - it is a continuation of centuries of greenhouse emissions, extraction, dispossession, and racial violence" Read more: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

In case you missed it, our latest REPAIR lecture on 'Seeking Reparations in an Age of Impunity' by Prof. @lukemoffett.bsky.social is now available online, open access. ➡️Watch it here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/see...

War & conflict-related sexual violence: Ukraine becomes the first country to provide survivors interim #reparation payments during an ongoing conflict; NGOs working on the issue claim to have learned a lot from Bosnia and Herzegovina's case. balkaninsight.com/2025/09/25/a...

Amid tensions over President Trump’s aim to annex the island, and following a series of apologies and the announcement of a #compensation fund from the Danish prime minister, victims of forced contraception are still looking for answers in Greenland. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

1/11. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: The twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee (#ExCom23) of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM) will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 in Bonn, Germany 🇩🇪. 🔗Find out more here: unfccc.int/event/WIMExC...

A thought-provoking piece on climate #reparations, #climate justice, and 'financial colonization' in relation to Indigenous voices being disregarded when it comes to the #LossAndDamage Fund & #COP30. www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/loss...

Interesting activist opinion piece about forgiveness, justice and #reparations in relation to Guantanamo and the US' war on terror for the recent 9/11 Memorial Day. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The EU to rely on the IMF's assessment for #reparations loan to Ukraine. While working on the loan's modalities, timings, and volumes, they will consider "the IMF assessment on the finance needs for Ukraine over the next two years" - says EU Economic Commissioner. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Victims of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz to receive #reparations. The ICC is working on determining the most appropriate measures which can include collective/individual reparations and may take various forms such as compensation, rehabilitation, or symbolic gestures. www.icc-cpi.int/news/al-hass...

This Tuesday, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia’s transitional justice body) ordered #reparations from seven ex-leaders of the demobilised FARC rebels for wartime crimes, including ~21.000 kidnappings. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Interesting reportage on #climatechange & #climatemigration in the case of Tuvalu in the South Pacific. www.dw.com/en/tuvalu-is...

There is still time to sign up for our next hybrid REPAIR lecture, happening tomorrow at 1pm CET. ↘️Click here to register: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/see...

Missed our previous lectures by leading #reparations experts? Watch them anytime, open-acess ⬇️ 🔗on our website: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures 📽️on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@reparations...

Beautiful, in-depth piece published in @nytimes.com about the people behind the ICJ's recent #climate #reparations ruling. Read it here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

"The assets themselves will not be touched. And the risk will have to be carried collectively": Ursula von der Leyen raised the question of using cash balances from frozen Russian assets for a #reparations loan to Ukraine at the European Parliament this Wednesday. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

As the conditions in Gaza continue to worsen, some turn to Britain for #reparations. The 'Britain Owes Palestine' campaign highlights the country's historic role in the ongoing ethnic cleansing since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and demands repair. www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaz...

Illegalising #reparations programs? Despite local approval on multiple levels, the Trump administration's DOJ threatens to investigate Asheville, North Carolina's innovative efforts which seek to repair generations of harm experienced by Black residents. eu.citizen-times.com/story/news/2...

“A unified approach to #reparations could be the game changer that empowers communities in Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora" - African and Caribbean states will meet in Addis Ababa this Sunday for the second Africa-CARICOM Summit. Read more here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...