The Durban Review Conference adopts an outcome document

Law 11.645 extended curriculum requirements to include Indigenous history and culture alongside Afro-Brazilian content. It recognized Black and Indigenous contributions to Brazil's formation and their...

Violence against people perceived as foreign began in Alexandra, Johannesburg, and spread to other communities. The attacks exposed exclusion and hostility within post-apartheid society,...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in the House of Commons to former residential school students. The statement acknowledged policies of separation and assimilation and the damage to...

Barack Obama won the presidential election, becoming the first African American elected to the office. The result broke a major barrier in political representation. A structural approach to racism...

A BART police officer fatally shot Oscar Grant at Fruitvale station in Oakland. The death became a focal point for public scrutiny of police force and accountability. The case belongs to the history...

A police operation against an Indigenous road blockade near Bagua led to deadly violence involving protesters and police. Awajún and Wampís communities had opposed laws affecting ancestral land and...

The Constitutional Court declared section 16 of KwaZulu-Natal's Slums Act invalid following a challenge by Abahlali baseMjondolo. The provision threatened to intensify eviction pressure. The...

The public announcement of the African Commission's Endorois decision marked a major Indigenous-rights victory. It found that removal from ancestral land for tourism had violated protected rights...

The Equality Act received royal assent, consolidating major strands of discrimination law, including protections concerning race. It addressed direct and indirect discrimination and public...

Governor Jan Brewer signed Arizona's SB 1070, expanding the state's role in immigration enforcement. The law provoked legal and political challenges over federal authority and the consequences of...