reparations
Russia’s war in Ukraine has emitted roughly 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 24 months, according to the most comprehensive such study of any war to date. This is the equivalent of the annual use of 90 million cars and could cost Russia nearly €30 billion in reparations for the climate damage it has caused. The report comes from the Initiative on Greenhouse Gas Accounting of War (IGGAW) which has been developing new methodologies to measure this ‘conflict carbon’. The initiative’s series of assessments is the first to map the emissions of any war on such a comprehensive scale. Where doe...
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Estonia’s parliament enacted a law on May 15 enabling the use of frozen Russian assets to compensate Ukraine for the damages caused by Russia’s war. Kyiv and its Western allies have discussed using around $300 billion in Russian assets held in Western accounts to support Ukraine. As of October 2023, the Estonian government estimated having 38 million euros ($41.3 million) in frozen Russian assets. “We will adopt this law because Ukraine’s victory is our victory,” Hendrik Johannes Terras, the chairman of Estonia’s Constitutional Commission, said. “We are adopting this law because Russia must co...
Kyiv Independent
Estonia’s parliament enacted a law on May 15 enabling the use of frozen Russian assets to compensate Ukraine for the damages caused by Russia’s war. Kyiv and its Western allies have discussed using around $300 billion in Russian assets held in Western accounts to support Ukraine. As of October 2023, the Estonian government estimated having 38 million euros ($41.3 million) in frozen Russian assets. “We will adopt this law because Ukraine’s victory is our victory,” Hendrik Johannes Terras, the chairman of Estonia’s Constitutional Commission, said. “We are adopting this law because Russia must co...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Estonia’s parliament enacted a law on May 15 enabling the use of frozen Russian assets to compensate Ukraine for the damages caused by Russia’s war. Kyiv and its Western allies have discussed using around $300 billion in Russian assets held in Western accounts to support Ukraine. As of October 2023, the Estonian government estimated having 38 million euros ($41.3 million) in frozen Russian assets. “We will adopt this law because Ukraine’s victory is our victory,” Hendrik Johannes Terras, the chairman of Estonia’s Constitutional Commission, said. “We are adopting this law because Russia must co...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
San Francisco (AFP) - Lynette Mackey stands in front of her family's former Victorian home in San Francisco's Fillmore district, a onetime vibrant neighborhood that drew touring jazz greats. But these days, Black Americans like Mackey feel displaced from Fillmore, once dubbed the "Harlem of the West," by urban renewal and public policies. "That's a perfect example of why we deserve reparations," says Mackey, who is 63. Her grandfather refused to give up the home to the city, which sought to demolish it. When he died in 1975, the family was forced to sell at a reduced price. Instead of razing t...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - California should pay substantial financial reparations to African-Americans to compensate for the legacy of US slavery and systemic racism, a committee report published Thursday said. The state, known for being one of the nation's most liberal, became the first to create a task force dedicated to the issue of reparations in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020 and amid the "Black Lives Matter" movement. After three years, the committee's final 1,100-page report recommends that California's legislature "make a substantial initial down payment on reparations" and organiz...
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San Francisco (AFP) - A proposal to give $5 million to every eligible Black person in San Francisco as part of the city's efforts to pay reparations was slammed Wednesday as "preposterous" by critics. It is one of dozens of suggestions, along with a guaranteed annual income of nearly $100,000, a house for $1 and the cancellation of debts, which came from a committee tasked with finding ways to atone for the city's racist policies of the past. It was met Tuesday with a rapturous response from San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, one of whom hailed it as a plan "for everybody's collective futur...
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Washington (AFP) - A US congressional committee voted Wednesday to advance to the whole House of Representatives a bill on federal slavery reparation payments to African Americans, in a historic step on an issue gaining momentum during the nation's reckoning on racial justice. The move represents the first-ever congressional vote on the issue of reparations for the descendants of enslaved people in the United States. The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee with a vote of 25 to 17 along strict party lines, with no Republicans voting to bring the bill in front of the whole House. The commi...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers next Wednesday will consider a bill to study paying reparations to descendants of enslaved people, which could open the door for a potential vote on an issue that has gained momentum in recent years. On April 14 the House Judiciary Committee will hold the first-ever markup -- the process by which committees debate and amend legislation -- on a bill that creates a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for Black people. Friday's announcement comes during the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing B...
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Evanston (United States) (AFP) - A Chicago suburb is set to become the first city in the United States to offer reparations to its Black residents, with a plan to distribute $10 million over the next decade. If the plan goes ahead it will be a first step by the residents of Evanston, Illinois towards answering the longstanding, massive and complex question of what the United States owes to African Americans -- from the descendants of slaves whose unpaid labor helped turn the country into a superpower, to later generations held back by decades of discriminatory practices. Evanston -- a town of ...
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