Actions of the UK with respect to the indigenous peoples of the Chagos Islands – Universal Periodic Review 27th session
Background In 1965, the UK formed a separate colony, called the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), by separating the Chagos…
Background In 1965, the UK formed a separate colony, called the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), by separating the Chagos…
The Chagossians were forcibly removed from their ancestral home on the Chagos Islands by the United Kingdom in the 1970s…
Minority Rights Group International (MRG), has submitted a written contribution ahead of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United…
Minority Rights Group International welcomes today’s Court of Appeal ruling that Chagos Islanders do have a right to return to…
On February 5 a group of exiled Chagossians will once again fight for the right to return to their homeland,…
By John Madeley In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the British government forced c. 2,000 Ilois people from the…