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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BANDUNG AFRICA ORGANISATION 20th May, 2022. Bandung Africa Announces the Appointment of One New Co. Chair. The Board of Governors of Bandung Africa extends its Pan African reach as it appoints Mrs Yetunde Asika, a uk trained lawyer based in Nigeria as its new Co. Chair. On the 20th May, 2022 in Nairobi, Bandung Africa […]
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 […]
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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1, 2022 MEDIA CONTACT press@bencrump.com International Human Rights Attorneys Ben Crump and Jasmine Rand Convene Civil Society Coalition to Appeal to the United Nations on Behalf of African Refugees Facing Racial Discrimination in Ukraine and Poland WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Internationally renowned human rights attorneys Ben Crump and Jasmine Rand, who represented […]
March 1, 2022 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights C/O Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights C/O Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination C/O Working Group on the Rights of People of African Descent United Nations Office at Geneva CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland To: High Commissioner Bachelet and United […]