Sentences with phrase «national reparations»

And here is her call yesterday for a national reparations scheme for members of the Stolen Generations, while this new interactive website provides resources to help teachers and students learn about the Stolen Generations.

This includes Australia's first thorough study of their current needs, which will give us a framework for looking at issues like aged care requirements, national reparations, and healing on a larger scale, for individuals, families and communities.

It is timely for the federal government to take a leadership role in developing a national reparations process to be co-funded by the states and territories.

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The Office of Proceedings, which is under the administrative direction of OED, provides an inexpensive and expeditious forum for handling customer complaints against people or firms registered with the National Futures Association (NFA) through its reparations program.

The success of the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in gaining reparations was a turning point in the notion of reparations for national crimes.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

It not only reversed the conventional direction of reparations, but it legitimized demands for reparations for past injustices by groups who had no specific national identity of their own.

Their caution reflected the heavy costs of Napoléon's previous quest for glory: more than 900,000 French soldiers dead, and a depleted national treasury now saddled with millions of francs of reparations due the Allies.

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Of her works, Campbell notes: «As we approach the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Red Summer, and other race riots that took place across the country, I offer this installation to ponder the architecture of our country and its relationship to justice, reparations, accountability, privilege, civic responsibility, codes of silence, generational trauma, tradition, legacy, apology, national inheritance, and reconciliation.»

Conor's book, Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) explores the ICC's regime of victim redress and the role it plays within the context of other systems of remedies for grave violations of international law at the national and international levels.

One of the main outcomes of the conference was that it expanded the knowledge of participants on the reparations approach and national and international developments in this regard.

It is in this context that PIAC, in consultation with representatives from the HREOC National Inquiry Secretariat, Link - Up, ATSIC, the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Aboriginal Medical Service, the NSW Dept of Aboriginal Affairs, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and others, developed a proposal for the establishment of a Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal in 1997.

There have been distinct patterns of debate since the launch of Bringing Them Home, such as whether individuals and our national leader should apologise; whether there should be a national Sorry Day; the understanding of words such as «guilt» and «shame»; the Inquiry's finding of genocide; the issue of compensation and reparation; the intersections with debates about native title and reconciliation; and the reassessment of Australian history and identity for which the Inquiry was viewed as a catalyst.

Over the previous eighteen months, ATSIC and HREOC, alongside the National Sorry Day Committee and stolen generations groups, had participated in a reference group formed by PIAC to guide the process of furthering the reparations tribunal proposal.

«It's been heartening to see a number of reparations schemes in states and territories around the country, but a national scheme is vital to ensuring that members of the Stolen Generations have access to financial redress for the harm they have suffered.

This has most visibly manifested in the establishment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation and reinvigorated discussion about options for reparations for the Stolen Generations.

Aside from the National Apology and the establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, many of the other recommendations for reparation remain largely outstanding, including the establishment of compensation payment schemes for the Stolen Generations and their families.

To the contrary, the government, because it has failed to move toward the resolution of a number of unresolved matters of reconciliation such as a framework agreement act or treaty, a national apology, compensation and reparation to the stolen generations, has contributed to the manifestation of the divide between black and white relations in this country.

Commissioner Oscar commended jurisdictions that have introduced reparation schemes, but re-iterated her call for a national scheme.

A national compensation scheme to make financial reparations to the Stolen Generations is long overdue.