The foreshore and seabed hīkoi reaches Parliament

The Constitutional Court ruled against restrictions on providing nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission and required a reasonable programme. The Treatment Action Campaign combined...

Brazil enacted Law 10.639, requiring the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture in primary and secondary education. Its prescribed content included African history and Black struggles and...

In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's individualized consideration of race in admissions. The 2003 ruling accepted educational diversity as a...

Decree 4.887 regulated identification, demarcation and titling of lands occupied by quilombola communities. It recognized community self-identification and territorial relationships in the...

France promulgated a law prohibiting conspicuous religious signs or clothing in public primary and secondary schools, framed through laïcité. Its scope included Muslim headscarves and other...

German development minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul asked forgiveness at a commemoration in Namibia a century after the colonial campaign against the Herero. Her intervention acknowledged German...

The National Museum of the American Indian opened on Washington's National Mall with a Native Nations Procession. Thousands of Indigenous participants made contemporary communities visible at the...

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Crown has a duty to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate Indigenous peoples when contemplated conduct may adversely affect potential rights. The...

Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, died in a fire while restrained in a Dessau police cell. His death became a focus of demands for truth and police accountability. Amnesty International...

Residents of Durban's Kennedy Road settlement blockaded Umgeni Road in protest over land and housing. Police dispersed the action and made arrests. The mobilization helped generate the movement...