These are some of the services both offered and requested on "Reparations," a website, conceptual art project, and social experiment by Seattle-based artist Natasha Marin. .
In an action intended to speed up payments to victims of the Nazi regime, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a federal judge exceeded her authority when she requested changes to an international reparations compact.
On 23 June the Council passed Resolution 138, which agreed that Argentine sovereignty had been violated and requested that Israel should make reparations.
In 2006 Russia ceased supplying Lithuania's main petroleum refinery and further refused to honour Lithuania's request for reparations for the Soviet Union's 50-year occupation of Lithuania.
The reparations payments fall far short of the $360 million requested by the commission.
On Tuesday, the Greek Ministry of Finance formally requested that Germany pay 278.7 billion euros ($303 billion) in war reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country.
In 1990, Congress issued a formal apology to the descendants for the massacre, although the resolution did not provide any reparations or declare the site a national monument, which was requested by the Wounded Knee Survivors Association.
The judges have also requested submissions from the prosecution, defence and victims regarding how consideration of potential reparations ought to be conducted.
It also requested the secretary general to compile a register of damages to be used in calculating reparations.
Mr. Smith, the Justice Department lawyer, said the government did not have a position on a reparations bill but would probably request that the two cases be consolidated.
Some recent requests on the Reparations site include travel money for a Native American woman looking to explore her cultural heritage; daily expenses for parents who said they are having trouble making ends meet; and art supplies for disadvantaged students.
