If We Do Not Deal with Colonialism, We Will Never End Racism.

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This 21st March is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On this occasion, Jehosheba Bennett, one of the lawyers who defended the five Métis women who accused the Belgian State of discriminatory policies and abuses committed during the colonial period, delivers an exceptional testimony, in particular on reparations which, she says, still have meaning today. ...

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In 2024, a Belgian court ordered that the State pay compensation to five Métis women, born of an African mother and a European father between 1948 and 1952, who were abducted from their mother during the colonial period of the Belgian Congo. In this historic judgment, Jehosheba Bennett was one of the lawyers who defended these women. Born in French Guiana, a territory integrated since 1946 in the French Republic as an overseas department, Jehosh…