Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s ...

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 forced removal of mixed-race children in the Belgian Congo had its roots in the policies of King Léopold II, who ruled the Congo as his personal colony from 1885 to 1908. Who was responsible ...

born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of "systematic abduction" by the state when they were abducted from their mothers as small children and brought up in Catholic ...

The Belgium government in 2019 issued a formal apology to an estimated 20,000 victims of forced family separations in DR Congo, as well as Burundi and Rwanda. DR Congo was governed by Belgium as a ...

Simone Vandenbroeck (l) and Léa Tavares Mujinga are two of the five women who have won their case for reparations A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race ...

PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using ...