BRUSSELS (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, from their ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Brussels appeals court ruled on Monday that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their Black mothers and raised as orphans in Catholic institutions and homes. Five ...

Five Belgian Congo métis (mixed race) women have won a case they filed against Belgium over crimes against humanity. Belgium governed what is now Democratic Republic of Congo from 1908 to 1960 as a ...

The government will have to pay reparations to the families of five mixed-race women who were forcibly separated from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo. In his 1899 ...

On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of ...

Lea Tavares Mujinga, Simone Vandenbroecke Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeken and Marie Jose Loshi pictured during a hearing in the case of five Belgian-Congolese women against the Belgian ...

Belgium's King Philippe expressed his "deepest regrets" for the harm done during Belgian colonial rule in DR Congo, in a first for his country. "I want to express my deepest regrets for these wounds ...