The Mabo judgment recognizes native title and rejects terra nullius

Colombia's Constituent Assembly signed and approved a new Constitution recognizing the country's ethnic and cultural diversity. Indigenous rights and a transitional provision concerning Black...

Political, business and labour representatives signed the National Peace Accord in Johannesburg. The agreement established structures to monitor, mediate and investigate violence during the...

The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit opened in Washington, running through 27 October. Delegates developed 17 principles connecting environmental protection with...

The first plenary meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa opened at Kempton Park and continued the following day. Nineteen delegations participated, though significant organizations...

A state-court jury acquitted officers on nearly all charges arising from the beating of Rodney King, failing to agree on one count. Protests and destructive unrest followed. The events exposed a...

Armed attackers killed township residents in Boipatong during the transition from apartheid. The massacre intensified accusations about state responsibility and contributed to the breakdown of...

Ciskei forces fired on a mass march challenging Oupa Gqozo's regime and demanding free political activity. The killings demonstrated the danger posed by apartheid's homeland institutions during the...

During protests marking 500 years since Columbus's arrival in the Americas, demonstrators in San Cristóbal de las Casas toppled the statue of conquistador Diego de Mazariegos. The action challenged...

At Redfern Park, Prime Minister Paul Keating acknowledged non-Indigenous responsibility for dispossession and other harms inflicted on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The speech...

Ogoni communities held a mass peaceful protest against Shell's operations and the damage to their homeland. Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People connected...