Saxon government acknowledges “years of disregard for their dignity and importance to their communities of origin”

Statue of a cockerel was looted by the British in 1897 from the Court of Benin

Work once belonged to the shoe manufacturer Alfred Hess, whose family was forced to flee Nazi Germany

Leo Bendel was killed at Buchenwald three years after he sold the painting by Carl Spitzweg to fund his escape from Nazi Germany

The gesture is intended as a symbol of France’s commitment to repatriating African heritage

Paid over four years, it will support efforts made by museums, grassroots-organisations and governments

The report made international headlines, recommending the restitution of African artefacts in French museums, but the country has not returned a single item to Africa

National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo agrees to buy the painting, Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather

A three-way battle is brewing in New York courts as the heirs of two Holocaust victims take on the work’s current owner

Gari Melchers's painting of a winter landscape, which was in the Arkell Museum in the state of New York, belonged to the media mogul Rudolf Mosse

But return of the objects permanently to Namibia is not the immediate goal, says Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Discussion argued for community empowerment, new skillsets, and focus on contemporary colonialism

While the president is the first to allow Title III of Helms-Burton Act to be used, some whose collections were taken doubt it will have an impact

Move reignites debate over British Museum’s position on sculptures brought to Britain by Lord Elgin

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

Spokeswoman for the London museum says it has not been officially approached by the country over the return of the two objects made by the Taíno people in its collection

Pioneering agreement to share contested work from Gurlitt trove provides a roadmap for similar legal cases

France’s president pledged to return 26 items seized in the 19th century by the French military

An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War

Suggestions from controversial Savoy-Sarr report were all-but buried at a conference held in Paris

The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director

The case 'shouldn't be heard in a US court', argues the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Study reveals that up to 8% of museum acquisitions were looted from private citizens

Case of Ethiopian tabots shows that trustees' hands are not tied when it comes to the disposal of certain items from the collection

Serious roadblocks remain for claimants looking to reclaim works looted by Nazis

Restitutions Committee recommends return of two Golden Age works to heirs of Jacob Lierens

Country has requested return of 11 tabots held in sealed storeroom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes should only be viewed by its priests

The judge says the work should have raised suspicions, but that he must apply Spanish law

Official argues that its return could help boost tourism in an area that has suffered economically from earthquake damage

Sotheby's assisted the return of the books, including 11 medieval manuscripts, which were found in Belgium