The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples adopts implementation commitments

The RCMP carried out an operation against a protest blockade near Rexton, New Brunswick, amid Elsipogtog Mi'kmaq opposition to shale-gas exploration. The confrontation generated scrutiny of police...

CARICOM leaders met in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to consider the Reparations Commission's report, including its Ten-Point Plan. The programme linked acknowledgment of slavery and genocide...

The Supreme Court of Canada granted a declaration of Aboriginal title over the area claimed by the Tsilhqot'in Nation before it. The judgment recognized territorial occupation beyond narrowly...

Eric Garner died during an arrest by New York police officers in Staten Island. Video of the encounter brought national attention to the use of force and the policing of minor alleged offences. The...

Police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The death prompted sustained protest and national attention to policing in Black communities. The subsequent federal...

A Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old Black child playing with a pellet gun. He died the following day. The case became central to demands for accountability and scrutiny of...

Student Chumani Maxwele protested at the Cecil Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town, helping initiate the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Students connected the colonial monument to wider...

The Cecil Rhodes statue was removed from its prominent campus position after a month of mobilization. Rhodes Must Fall supporters treated the removal as part of a larger struggle over institutional...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action at its closing event. They addressed residential-school legacies and reforms across education, justice, health and other...

A white supremacist gunman killed nine Black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. The attack targeted a historic Black religious institution and intensified demands...