Sentence examples for grant reparations from inspiring English sources

The Franco regime, Judge Garzón wrote, "used all its resources to locate, identify and grant reparations to the victims from the winning side but did not give the same respect to the losers, who were persecuted, jailed, disappeared and tortured".

As a child of Holocaust survivors and as the interfaith chairman of the New Jersey Holocaust Education Commission, I urge the courts to grant reparations due to Holocaust victims as soon as possible.

A timely report co-released by the International Human Rights Law Clinic IHRLC) urges Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal to comply with international criminal justice practice and grant reparations to victims of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

Judge Fisher, who was a senior Justice Department official before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the bench in 1999, also urged the executive branch and Congress to grant reparations to victims of C.I.A. "misjudgments or mistakes" that violated their human rights if government records confirmed their accusations, even though the courthouse was closed to them.

Though Burge has been mum for years on the matter, the Sun-Times confirmed Friday that Burge broke his silence after the city's approval to grant reparations.

Mrs. Houston said one good that might come from granting reparations would be the acknowledgment by the government of a great injustice.

He praised a law granting reparations to victims of armed conflict and returning land taken from them, and said in a video message released in August that "dialogue is the way".

Granting reparations in this way would empower African Americans but gifts nothing: Black voters would still have to claim their share of reparations at every election — a suitable settlement in a nation allergic to handouts.

Granting reparations in this way would empower African Americans but gift nothing: Black voters would still have to claim their share of reparations at every election — a suitable settlement in a nation allergic to handouts.

In 1988, Congress passed legislation granting reparations to those who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.

Ronald Reagan (1987-1989 Republican with Democratic Congress): Homeless Assistance Act (1987) - provided federal money for homeless shelter programs Civil Liberties Act (1988) - granted reparations to Japanese-Americans who had been interned by the U.S. government during World War II.