Oury Jalloh dies in a police-cell fire in Dessau

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...

Thousands marched to Parliament in Wellington against proposed legislation vesting ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Crown. The hīkoi asserted Māori interests and opposition to...

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...

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...

Representatives from twelve settlements formally constituted Abahlali baseMjondolo as an autonomous shack-dwellers' movement. They committed to collective action for land, housing and popular...

Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré died by electrocution in an electrical installation in Clichy-sous-Bois while hiding from police. Their deaths preceded weeks of unrest. The episode became a focal point in...

A large crowd assembled at Cronulla in Sydney and attacked people perceived as Middle Eastern. The violence drew on anti-Lebanese and anti-Muslim hostility and claims of ownership over public space....

Immigrants and supporters marched and joined boycotts across the United States to demand rights for undocumented people. The mobilization brought diverse communities into public view as workers,...