Inuit sign the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

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...

White extremist Janusz Waluś assassinated Chris Hani, a prominent anti-apartheid leader, outside his home. The killing generated widespread grief and anger during negotiations to end minority rule....

After racist abuse at Victoria Park, Aboriginal footballer Nicky Winmar lifted his St Kilda jersey and pointed to his skin. Photographs made the gesture a lasting assertion of Aboriginal pride. His...

A racist attack killed Black teenager Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, London. His family's sustained campaign challenged the failures of the police investigation and brought institutional racism into...

A racist arson attack on the Genç family home in Solingen killed five girls and women of Turkish origin. The murders became a defining example of far-right violence against migrant communities in...

Colombia enacted Law 70, establishing a framework for collective land ownership by Black communities in specified rural riverine areas of the Pacific region. It also addressed cultural identity and...

The multiparty negotiating process approved an interim constitutional agreement to guide South Africa away from apartheid. It provided the framework for universal adult suffrage, rights protection and...

The Native Title Act received royal assent after the Mabo judgment had rejected terra nullius. It established a national framework for recognizing and protecting native title and handling claims....

The predominantly Indigenous Zapatista Army of National Liberation began an uprising in Chiapas and issued its First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. Its demands included land, housing, health,...