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…
Chagos Islanders
Chagos Islanders
Chagos Islands: The Right of Return for the Chagossians
The Chagossians were forcibly removed from their ancestral home on the Chagos Islands by the United Kingdom in the 1970s…
UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s submission
Minority Rights Group International (MRG), has submitted a written contribution ahead of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United…
Chagos Islanders win right to return – British court rules in their favour
Minority Rights Group International welcomes today’s Court of Appeal ruling that Chagos Islanders do have a right to return to…
Chagos Islanders return to High Court for fresh appeal by Foreign and Commonwealth Office
On February 5 a group of exiled Chagossians will once again fight for the right to return to their homeland,…
Diego Garcia – The Ilois People Fight Back
By John Madeley In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the British government forced c. 2,000 Ilois people from the…
