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
The purpose of the Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racial Police Violence (Commission) is to examine whether widespread and systematic racist violence in policing against people of African descent in the United States of America (U.S.) has resulted in a continuing pattern of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The...Read More
High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Attn: Sara Hamood, Maria Luisa Buscar Dear High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet: In a courtroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the police officer caught on video with his knee on George Floyd’s neck is...Read More
Full transcript of the “Message to the Grassroots” speech by civil rights leader Malcolm X, also known as “The House Negro and the Field Negro” speech. He gave the speech on March 26, 1964. Malcolm X: (00:02) During the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you...Read More
Kenyan communities evicted during colonial #Britain are now seeking compensation! Barrister Peter Herbert (@herbert_donald) explains why reparations for historic injustices are justified by the effects still felt today. pic.twitter.com/NcXc6op56q — RT UK (@RTUKnews) August 24, 2020Read More
