Belgium has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for “ systematic kidnapping ” of children during its colonial-era ...

Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Belgium has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the kidnapping of mixed-race children in the ...

Known as “métis," the children were snatched away from families and placed in religious institutions and homes by Belgian authorities that ruled Congo from 1908 to 1960. A lower court had first ...

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo. The women, now in their 70s ...

The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday found the Belgian state guilty of “crimes against humanity” for kidnapping five mixed-race women when they were children in Congo under colonial rule.