The Maasai Living Cultures Project is a collaborative project between representatives of the Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasai community and the Pitt Rivers Museum. It aims to build trust and address concerns about the portrayal of Maasai culture in museums. It aims to foster knowledge exchange and collaboration between the Maasai community and UK museums and...Read More
EDM (Early Day Motion)735: tabled on 08 May 2024 Tabled in the 2023-24 session. This motion has been signed by 2 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted. Motion text That this House stands in solidarity with the Maasai people of Tanzania who are being forcibly evicted by their Government on the false...Read More
The intention of the Bandung Africa 2023 conference was to support the initiatives of civil society in the region by adding the voice of various human rights and climate change activists, and genuine conservationists on the continent, and in the African diaspora to support the work of those on the Continent. In that regard the...Read More
Exclusive: ‘We demand the immediate arrest of Preston Hemphill, and all of the other officers who took any action that contributed to the death of Tyre Nichols,’ attorney tells The Independent. An urgent United Nations appeal has been filed by the family members of Tyre Nichols and their legal team, The Independent can reveal. Mr...Read More
Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, The Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard, Victoria, London. 20.12.2022 By email to mark.rowley@met.police.uk; paul.brogden@met.police.uk Dear Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley, You may recall that I was an independent member of the Metropolitan Police Authority (2000 to 2008) and Vice Chair for a period of two years. I...Read More
Abstract One way of understanding the exile of the Chagos Islanders and their inability to return to their ancestral land is through a reading of the case from a perspective of post-colonial legal scholarship. Chagossians have strong legal rights to land and remedies of compensation and return through a purposive application of the international legal...Read More
EDM (Early Day Motion)228: tabled on 30 June 2022 Tabled in the 2022-23 session. This motion has been signed by 1 Member. It has not yet had any amendments submitted. Motion text That this House stands in solidarity with the Maasai people of Tanzania who are being forcibly evicted on the false pretense that they...Read More
EDM (Early Day Motion)891: tabled on 15 September 2020 Tabled in the 2019-21 session. This motion has been signed by 13 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted. Motion text That this House stands in solidarity with the people of Kenya who are seeking redress for the theft of their lands under the...Read More
Society of Black Lawyers will join campaigners opposed to the controversial Nationality and Borders Bill to take part in a national demonstration against the proposed legislation later this month. The much-criticised Bill which is currently winding through Parliament gives the Home Secretary the right to strip Britons with foreign ancestry of their nationality without notice....Read More
