New German Guidelines on Colonial Returns Fail Rights Test

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Benin bronzes looted in the past and returned to Nigeria by Germany are examined during a handing over ceremony in Abuja, December 20, 2022. © 2022 Olamikan Gbemiga/AP Photo Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate the returns cultural belongings and ancestral remains from colonial contexts, the guidelines appear to go out of the way to distance such returns from international human rights standards on colonial…

Read complete article

~	Creepy cicadas, ticking clocks and jump scares: How frightful films conjure terror out of quiet

~	The Thing With Feathers: a dark but uplifting exploration of grief and despair

~	The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about empire than about monsters

~	Trump assault on US justice department independence revisits a Nixon-era problem

~	Slow Horses season five: there’s comedy but also real spycraft – according to espionage expert

~	HIV prevention jab approved for use in England and Wales – here’s how it works

~	‘No kings’: America’s oldest political slogan is drawing millions out onto the streets

~	The Celebrity Traitors: psychologist explains how to defend yourself when you’re accused of lying

~	How gastronomy tourism evolved into international identity and cultural diplomacy

~	Africa’s air links are poor: can the G20 push for more direct flights to improve tourism and trade?