A proclamation establishes National Aboriginal Day

Nigeria's military authorities executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists after a trial condemned by human-rights organizations. Their struggle had challenged oil-related environmental...

Black organizations brought roughly 30,000 people to Brasília for the Zumbi dos Palmares March against Racism, for Citizenship and Life. Marking three centuries since Zumbi's death, participants...

The Mexican government and EZLN reached agreements on Indigenous rights and culture at San Andrés. The commitments envisaged a changed relationship based on recognition, participation and...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission began formal public hearings on human-rights violations in East London. Survivors and relatives described abuses committed during the apartheid conflict. Public...

South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopted a new constitutional text after a participatory drafting process. Its rights framework sought to replace the legal architecture of apartheid with...

Undocumented migrants occupied Saint-Bernard church in Paris as part of a struggle for regularization and rights. The occupation made people usually discussed as an administrative problem visible as...

Police entered Saint-Bernard church in Paris and removed the undocumented migrants occupying it. Images of the operation made the conflict over regularization widely visible. The eviction did not...

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples released its five-volume final report. It proposed a renewed relationship and recognition of Indigenous governments as an order of government within...

The High Court ruled that the pastoral leases at issue did not necessarily extinguish native title. Indigenous and pastoral rights could coexist, with lease rights prevailing where inconsistent. The...

Attackers set fire to Indigenous leader Galdino Jesus dos Santos while he slept at a bus stop in Brasília. He died the following day. Remembered as Galdino Pataxó, he had travelled to the capital...