Canada: pressure on Catholic church to compensate victims of residential schools abuses

• Scale of church's assets revealed in string of investigations
• Discovery of unmarked graves prompts fresh reparations calls

The Catholic church in Canada has come under growing pressure to compensate victims of the country's residential school system after the scale of its assets were revealed in a string of media investigations.

As part of a 2007 agreement, the church agreed to pay C$29m in compensation to survivors, but only distributed a fraction of that figure, citing poor fundraising efforts.