France’s National Assembly has voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, the 1685 royal decree that regulated slavery across the French colonial empire. Although slavery was abolished permanently in ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

Now that France has finally repealed the so-called Code Noir or Black Code, experts are urging the country to also consider ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

French lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to repeal a 17th-century law that governed ...

French President Emmanuel Macron endorsed the symbolic repeal of centuries-old royal decrees governing slavery in France's former colonies, while acknowledging growing demands for reparations but ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France ...