Settlement representatives formally establish Abahlali baseMjondolo

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...

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,...

France observed the first annual metropolitan commemoration dedicated to slave trading, slavery and abolition. President Jacques Chirac addressed the ceremony. The date institutionalized remembrance...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in Parliament for the Chinese head tax and expressed sorrow for subsequent exclusion. The announcement followed a long campaign for redress by Chinese...