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In Australia, transitional justice is being undermined by politics. The Aboriginal community is trying to adapt to the failings of truth commissions following the recent change of government in Queensland. Photo: An Aboriginal man, with only his hands visible, burns herbs during a traditional smoking ceremony.

The retreating tide of transitional justice in Australia

There have been many setbacks for transitional justice in Australia in the past year. The latest one happened in the state of Queensland. A new Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry was shut down after the conservative opposition won the state elections last October. Meanwhile, a key commitment of the only remaining formal transitional justice mechanism, the […]

By Maxim Shanahan (in Sydney, Australia)

Norway on the road to reconciliation with the Sami indigenous peoples, Kven, Norwegian Finns and Forrest Finns for its “Norwegianization politics” in the past. Photo : traditional dwellings of the Sami people - set up in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament.

The beginning of Norway’s reconciliation process

Political treaty on the future of the Chagos Islands between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. Photo: The island of Diego Garcia seen from a satellite.

Will the Chagos treaty address the wrongs of the past?

Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.

Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown

Catholic residential school (named

Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe

In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)

Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence

Art installation in Australia representing the aboriginal flag

Against tide, Yoorrook Commission goes on

Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game?

Truth Commission in Norway - A woman poses in traditional Sami clothing.

Will Norway’s truth and reconciliation process bring change?

Aboriginal children in Australia - Yoorrook Commission reveals alarming colonization figures

Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system”

Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia

Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims

Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage

Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system

Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.

Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission

Justice in Amazonia - Indigenous inhabitant of the Amazonian forest, in Brazil, in traditional dress

Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon?

Canada's Indigenous people in the Vatican

Pope offers Church's 'apology' to Canada's indigenous people

A large group of indigenous women outside the Justice Palace in Guatemala

Guatemala: How indigenous women beat paramilitaries

Group of nomadic Sámis

Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Cadmus Delorme and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stand for a photograph with residential school survivors following a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Cowessess First Nation, Sask, July 6, 2021.

Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada

Pygmy (Twa) child in the bush (DRC)

DRC: Indigenous Twa are freed but still landless