reparatory

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Last year, Commonwealth leaders agreed it was time for a "meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation" about reparatory justice for the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

This is the most commonly understood form of reparatory justice – where a state gives money to a country whose communities it enslaved.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

Diplomats said the expectation now was that reparatory justice would be a central focus of the agenda for the next Commonwealth summit in two years’ time in the Caribbean, possibly Antigua and Barbuda.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

All three of the candidates - Shirley Botchwey of Ghana, Joshua Setipa of Lesotho and Mamadou Tangara of Gambia - back reparatory justice.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

There are reparatory powers always at work to supply the waste caused by never-ceasing combustion.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin