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  1. Italy returns 27 historical objects to Mexico after investigations by art hit squad – The Art Newspaper

    Italian authorities have returned 27 archaeological artefacts to Mexico after they were recovered during multiple investigations conducted across…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #ArtCrime #Restitution
    europesays.com/italy/33152/

  2. UK Forced Adoption Was Not Just a Past Crime — It Is an Ongoing, Living, National Shame

    Britain has finally apologised for historic forced adoption, but apology is not accountability. The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, delivered the apology in Parliament as campaigners watched on, ahead of a reception for them in Westminster. He reflected on the harm caused to an estimated 185,000 mothers, adopted people and their wider families by practices that took place primarily between 1949 and 1976.The shame was never the mothers’ or the children’s; it was the state’s, and it still is whenever records go missing, files are delayed, fathers are erased, and adoptees are left to fight for the facts of their own lives.1

    The historical record is no longer in serious dispute. Government materials now acknowledge that many women were coerced or misled into surrendering children for adoption, particularly between 1949 and 1976, and that the harm extended to mothers, adoptees, fathers and wider families. The prime minister’s apology and the £4 million support package are welcome, but they are also an admission that the country is still trying to repair a wound it helped create and then bury.²

    But the story did not end in 1976, and that is one of the central lacunae in too many official summaries. The law changed, yes, and adoption today in England and Wales is not the same as the private, coercive system of the mid-twentieth century. Yet the afterlife of forced adoption continues through record suppression, slow access, missing files, bureaucratic obstruction, and the routine treatment of adoptees and birth families as paperwork rather than people.³

    This is where fathers must be put back into the frame. The government itself now says fathers and wider families were harmed too, which matters because historic forced adoption often amounted not only to the separation of mother and child, but to a broader act of defathering: the wiping out of paternal ties, paternal knowledge, and paternal responsibility, often through stigma, exclusion, or legal silence. If the state is serious about equality and justice, it must stop pretending this was only a women-and-babies issue. It was a family-life crime.4

    That means the legal language needs discipline. It is right to say that many people were robbed of family life, identity and knowledge of origin. It is not legally careful to imply an absolute right in every case to be raised by the birth family. But it is absolutely right to say that coercive removals, hidden maternity homes, procedural pressure, and institutional concealment were grave interferences with Article 8 family life and with the basic dignity of mothers, fathers and children alike.⁵

    A serious response must therefore be bigger than apology and support services. It should include mandatory preservation of adoption records, a survivor-led national tracing service, properly funded intermediary support, trauma-informed NHS pathways, and a clear accountability framework for churches, maternity homes, hospitals, adoption agencies and public bodies involved in the abuses. It should also include a specific remedy for fathers and other excluded relatives whose relationship to the child was erased, obscured or blocked by stigma and administrative practice. Truth recovery without power, evidence, and compulsion is just a managed confession.6

    The political truth is just as blunt. Forced adoption was not merely an administrative failure; it was a moral regime built on shame, class power, sexual control, and the denial of women’s autonomy and fathers’ standing. That regime did not end overnight, and its aftershocks are still felt whenever a council loses records, a file is delayed, or an adopted adult is forced to fight for the most basic facts of their own life.

    So the question is no longer whether Britain can apologise. It already has. The question is whether Britain is prepared to do the hard work that apology demands: preserve the evidence, open the files, fund the tracing, support the survivors, restore fathers and wider families to the historical record, and tell the truth without varnish. Anything less leaves the apology as what too many state apologies become — a gesture of remorse wrapped around a refusal to reckon fully with the crime.7 ⁸ 9

    References

    1. UK government: Government apologises for historic forced adoption practices
      https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-apologises-for-historic-forced-adoption-practices
    2. UK government: Historic forced adoption: information and support
      https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/historic-forced-adoption-information-and-support/historic-forced-adoption-information-and-support
    3. Adoption Act 1976
      https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/36/enacted
    4. Adoption Act 1976 contents page
      https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/36/contents
    5. House of Lords and Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights: The Violation of Family Life
      https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5803/jtselect/jtrights/270/report.html
    6. House of Commons Education Committee: Historical Forced Adoption
      https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmeduc/1713/report.html
    7. BBC: Report into Mother and Baby homes to be published today
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jyy29d1x6o
    8. BBC: Expert panel to work with mother-and-baby home victims
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56283644
    9. Department for Education: Increasing the retention period for adoption records
      https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/increasing-the-retention-period-for-adoption-records


    FamilyConnect

    FamilyConnect helps adults who have been adopted, adults who have been in care, birth parents and relatives who have lost someone to adoption and professionals working in these areas.

    #adoptees #Adoption #family #forcedAdoptions #historicForcedAdoptions #justice #KeirStarmer #politics #restitution
  3. Mis en vente à Paris, un #manuscrit algérien de 1609 rentre au pays
    actualitte.com/article/132625/
    L’#Algérie a récupéré un manuscrit rare daté de 1609-1610, intitulé Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-siraj, avant sa mise en vente publique à Paris. Attribué à Sahnoun ben Othman al-Wansharisi, le document a été remis aux autorités culturelles algériennes, dans un contexte de recensement et de valorisation du patrimoine manuscrit national
    #restitution

  4. Mis en vente à Paris, un #manuscrit algérien de 1609 rentre au pays
    actualitte.com/article/132625/
    L’#Algérie a récupéré un manuscrit rare daté de 1609-1610, intitulé Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-siraj, avant sa mise en vente publique à Paris. Attribué à Sahnoun ben Othman al-Wansharisi, le document a été remis aux autorités culturelles algériennes, dans un contexte de recensement et de valorisation du patrimoine manuscrit national
    #restitution

  5. Mis en vente à Paris, un #manuscrit algérien de 1609 rentre au pays
    actualitte.com/article/132625/
    L’#Algérie a récupéré un manuscrit rare daté de 1609-1610, intitulé Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-siraj, avant sa mise en vente publique à Paris. Attribué à Sahnoun ben Othman al-Wansharisi, le document a été remis aux autorités culturelles algériennes, dans un contexte de recensement et de valorisation du patrimoine manuscrit national
    #restitution

  6. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  7. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  8. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  9. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  10. "The #Italian #Parliament has introduced a bill that would allow the government to create a #restitution process for #art and #culturalproperty lost under #Fascist laws and during the broader #Holocaust period.

    Bill 2834 would enable the Italian Government to create a framework for #reparations for art and other cultural items that were seized or otherwise looted due to #antisemitic persecution that was codified and permitted by law under #BenitoMussolini's Fascist government in 1938.

    The bill was reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies’ VII Committee on Culture, Science, and Education on June 24. During the hearing, the President of the Union of Italian #Jewish Communities (#UCEI), #LiviaOttolenghi, affirmed her support for the proposal.

    "There is no need to repeat how deeply the wounds inflicted by the racial laws are still felt today by Italian #Jews and our communities," Ottolenghi stated."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  11. The Netherlands and Germany agree to return more than 2,000 cultural artefacts to Ghana – The Art Newspaper

    The Netherlands and Germany intend to return more than 2,000 cultural objects belonging to Ghana taken unlawfully during…
    #Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Ghana #Museums&Heritage #restitution
    europesays.com/netherlands/254

  12. Remember those firings due to social media statements by people coming put in response to Charlie Kirk's killing? Well here is how some of them are going.

    Do note that in many of these cases the payouts are coming from tax dollars. It depends where and why so it may not be your money but it is some tax base's money.

    npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-58563

    #charliekirk #restitution #npr #firstamendment

  13. Remember those firings due to social media statements by people coming put in response to Charlie Kirk's killing? Well here is how some of them are going.

    Do note that in many of these cases the payouts are coming from tax dollars. It depends where and why so it may not be your money but it is some tax base's money.

    npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-58563

    #charliekirk #restitution #npr #firstamendment

  14. Remember those firings due to social media statements by people coming put in response to Charlie Kirk's killing? Well here is how some of them are going.

    Do note that in many of these cases the payouts are coming from tax dollars. It depends where and why so it may not be your money but it is some tax base's money.

    npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-58563

    #charliekirk #restitution #npr #firstamendment

  15. Remember those firings due to social media statements by people coming put in response to Charlie Kirk's killing? Well here is how some of them are going.

    Do note that in many of these cases the payouts are coming from tax dollars. It depends where and why so it may not be your money but it is some tax base's money.

    npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-58563

    #charliekirk #restitution #npr #firstamendment

  16. Remember those firings due to social media statements by people coming put in response to Charlie Kirk's killing? Well here is how some of them are going.

    Do note that in many of these cases the payouts are coming from tax dollars. It depends where and why so it may not be your money but it is some tax base's money.

    npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-58563

    #charliekirk #restitution #npr #firstamendment

  17. Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting – The Art Newspaper

    There is a new development in the saga of the Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting Seated Man With a…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #AmedeoModigliani #Artmarket #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Law #Naziloot #restitution
    newsbeep.com/us/710597/

  18. Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting – The Art Newspaper

    There is a new development in the saga of the Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting Seated Man With a…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #AmedeoModigliani #Artmarket #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Law #Naziloot #restitution
    newsbeep.com/us/710597/

  19. Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting – The Art Newspaper

    There is a new development in the saga of the Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting Seated Man With a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #AmedeoModigliani #Artmarket #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Law #Naziloot #Restitution #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/644307/

  20. Le Parlement entérine la #restitution à la #Guyane des restes de six Amérindiens, exhibés dans des « zoos humains »
    lemonde.fr/politique/article/2
    En 1892, 33 #Amérindiens furent emmenés par paquebot vers l’Hexagone et exhibés vivants dans des « zoos humains » au Jardin d’acclimatation, à Paris. Huit d’entre eux ne survécurent pas.

  21. Le Parlement entérine la #restitution à la #Guyane des restes de six Amérindiens, exhibés dans des « zoos humains »
    lemonde.fr/politique/article/2
    En 1892, 33 #Amérindiens furent emmenés par paquebot vers l’Hexagone et exhibés vivants dans des « zoos humains » au Jardin d’acclimatation, à Paris. Huit d’entre eux ne survécurent pas.

  22. Le Parlement entérine la #restitution à la #Guyane des restes de six Amérindiens, exhibés dans des « zoos humains »
    lemonde.fr/politique/article/2
    En 1892, 33 #Amérindiens furent emmenés par paquebot vers l’Hexagone et exhibés vivants dans des « zoos humains » au Jardin d’acclimatation, à Paris. Huit d’entre eux ne survécurent pas.

  23. Le Parlement entérine la #restitution à la #Guyane des restes de six Amérindiens, exhibés dans des « zoos humains »
    lemonde.fr/politique/article/2
    En 1892, 33 #Amérindiens furent emmenés par paquebot vers l’Hexagone et exhibés vivants dans des « zoos humains » au Jardin d’acclimatation, à Paris. Huit d’entre eux ne survécurent pas.

  24. Le Parlement entérine la #restitution à la #Guyane des restes de six Amérindiens, exhibés dans des « zoos humains »
    lemonde.fr/politique/article/2
    En 1892, 33 #Amérindiens furent emmenés par paquebot vers l’Hexagone et exhibés vivants dans des « zoos humains » au Jardin d’acclimatation, à Paris. Huit d’entre eux ne survécurent pas.

  25. Compte rendu du film documentaire Elephants and Squirrels, de Gregor Brändli, sur la restitution au Sri Lanka d'objets et de restes humains conservés en Suisse.

    Caroline Montebello présente les thèmes du film qui offre « panorama exhaustif d'un processus de restitution ».

    A lire: infoclio.ch/fr/compte-rendu-el

    #histodons #restitution #colonialisme #histoireCH #histoire #film

  26. Compte rendu du film documentaire Elephants and Squirrels, de Gregor Brändli, sur la restitution au Sri Lanka d'objets et de restes humains conservés en Suisse.

    Caroline Montebello présente les thèmes du film qui offre « panorama exhaustif d'un processus de restitution ».

    A lire: infoclio.ch/fr/compte-rendu-el

    #histodons #restitution #colonialisme #histoireCH #histoire #film

  27. Compte rendu du film documentaire Elephants and Squirrels, de Gregor Brändli, sur la restitution au Sri Lanka d'objets et de restes humains conservés en Suisse.

    Caroline Montebello présente les thèmes du film qui offre « panorama exhaustif d'un processus de restitution ».

    A lire: infoclio.ch/fr/compte-rendu-el

    #histodons #restitution #colonialisme #histoireCH #histoire #film

  28. Compte rendu du film documentaire Elephants and Squirrels, de Gregor Brändli, sur la restitution au Sri Lanka d'objets et de restes humains conservés en Suisse.

    Caroline Montebello présente les thèmes du film qui offre « panorama exhaustif d'un processus de restitution ».

    A lire: infoclio.ch/fr/compte-rendu-el

    #histodons #restitution #colonialisme #histoireCH #histoire #film

  29. Compte rendu du film documentaire Elephants and Squirrels, de Gregor Brändli, sur la restitution au Sri Lanka d'objets et de restes humains conservés en Suisse.

    Caroline Montebello présente les thèmes du film qui offre « panorama exhaustif d'un processus de restitution ».

    A lire: infoclio.ch/fr/compte-rendu-el

    #histodons #restitution #colonialisme #histoireCH #histoire #film