Police forcibly evacuate the Saint-Bernard occupation

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...

Governor General Roméo LeBlanc issued the proclamation designating 21 June each year as National Aboriginal Day. It recognized First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures and contributions. The measure...

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...

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...

The Bringing Them Home report was tabled in federal Parliament. Drawing on testimony about the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, it made the...

The Supreme Court of Canada clarified Aboriginal title and held that courts must adapt evidentiary rules to take Indigenous oral histories seriously. It ordered a new trial rather than awarding the...