Most of the children ... the mixed-race descendants of its white colonists in 2019. Belgium's rule over what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo was one of the harshest imposed by the European ...

BRUSSELS - The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed European ... of mixed-race children from Congo between ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed European and African heritage ...

Belgian State Held Accountable for Colonial-Era Abduction of Mixed-Race Children BRUSSELS ... the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed European and African heritage, from ...

The women, who were the daughters of Congolese mothers and European fathers, were removed from their families by the colonial state, which viewed mixed-race children as a threat to the racial ...

The Jewish tradition of “matrilineality” — defining as Jewish a child born of a Jewish ... So the Jews were persecuted as a “race” by their neighbors in Europe and elsewhere for ...

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.

In the ninth and tenth centuries, castles were often built of wood and easily burned down by enemies. As unrest spread across ...

In the first nine months of 2024, arrivals of unaccompanied children to Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain, the main entry points to the European Union, were 8% higher than in the ...