US EditionUK Lawmakers Call for Ban on Display and Sale of Human Remains
- Some British lawmakers, NGOs, and researchers demand the government address the issue of holding African ancestral remains, which they describe as a legislative vacuum.
- There are calls for a ban on the sale of human remains, with suggestions to amend the Human Tissue Act 2004 to include remains over 100 years old.
- MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy reported that communities oppose the public display of remains and highlighted distress caused by ancestral parts displayed in museums.
- The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations urges national museums to remove displayed remains and establish a memorial for those whose origins are unknown.
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Putting ethics at the forefront in the use of human skeletal remains
Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues from the United States to review the use of human skeletal remains for teaching and research.
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AlKhaleej Today‘Not commercial objects but human beings’: Calls grow for UK to ban display, sale of ancestral remains
LONDON, March 13 — Some British lawmakers, NGOs and researchers have called on the government to fix what they have described as a “legislative vacuum” that allows museums and other institutions to hold and display African ancestral remains taken during the colonial era. For centuries, African ancestral remains, such as mummified bodies, skulls and other body parts, were brought to Britain and to other former colonial powers, often as “trophies”…
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