The Wembley concert amplifies the campaign to free Mandela

Rivonia trialist Govan Mbeki was released from Robben Island. His imprisonment had removed a senior liberation organizer from public political life. The release was an important milestone in the...

Aboriginal people and supporters gathered in Sydney to protest amid celebrations of the First Fleet's bicentenary. Radio Redfern helped connect participants and circulate Indigenous voices. The...

The United Democratic Front issued a statement protesting the banning and restriction of open political organizations. Suppression attacked the networks through which communities organized against...

Dulcie September, the ANC representative in France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, was shot dead in Paris. Her work built international opposition to apartheid. Her assassination illustrates the...

Campaigners held a rally in Ottawa demanding redress for wartime dispossession, displacement and internment. Community testimony and organization made state responsibility a public issue. The rally...

The government accepted the Waitangi Tribunal's recommendation to return Takaparawhā, or Bastion Point, land to Ngāti Whātua. The announcement followed a long struggle that included the 1977–1978...

President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act after sustained Japanese American advocacy. It provided an apology and authorized payments to eligible surviving victims of wartime...

The federal government announced a settlement negotiated with the National Association of Japanese Canadians. It acknowledged wartime injustices and included individual compensation and resources...

Brazil's Constitution made racism a crime not subject to bail or a limitation period and recognized land rights of qualifying quilombola communities in transitional Article 68. These provisions...

The High Court invalidated Queensland legislation intended to extinguish rights in the Torres Strait islands. The decision allowed the Meriam plaintiffs' land claim to continue. Antidiscrimination law...