The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples releases its report

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...

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 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...

Armed attackers killed 45 Indigenous people in Acteal, Chiapas. The massacre became a focus of demands for justice and scrutiny of state responsibility. Amnesty International later criticized the...