The deaths of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré precede nationwide unrest

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...

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

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...

San applicants led by Roy Sesana won a High Court case challenging their removal from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The litigation asserted the rights of people treated as obstacles to state...