A request for the creation of a "Truth Commission on Indian Homes in French Guiana" has been submitted in France. But the political conditions are not yet ripe.
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Since its publication in September, a report has been shaking up the secrecy that has surrounded sexual abuse in the Swiss Church since the mid-20th century.
Since October, a bill to grant "pardons" for coalminers who participated in the violent strikes of 1984 and 1985 has been before the Scottish Parliament. Its scope is limited, but like the commission of inquiry that preceded it, this bill is evidence of an original process that uses transitional justice tools and is part of a "truth and reconciliation" approach, according to academics Jean-Pierre Massias and Niki Siampakou.
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