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Always unblock YouTube Introduction This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). The mission was originally tasked with laying the groundwork for Sahrawi self-determination while monitoring a ceasefire between Morocco and Polisario – the Western Sahara national liberation movement. In setting up the mission, the United Nations promised to end the long-running conflict in what remains Africa’s only territory still...

Author Palestinian protester on the border between Gaza and Israel. August 30, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatb / Shutterstock The past several years have seen a chorus of demands for decolonization coming from various movements, giving new life to the term. The challenge to colonial power structures today ranges from contestation over public monuments, museums and school curricula, to the struggles for the recognition and reclamation of the stolen lands on which many modern capitalist power ...

Select Page THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S FORUM ROYALTY, RACISM, REPUBLICANISM & REPARATION: Preparing for the 60th Anniversary of Nationhood in the CARICOM Region Spread the love Dorbrene E. O’Marde, Chairperson ABRSC I thank The UWI and the Centre for Reparation Research for affording me this opportunity to share ideas in this – the Vice-Chancellor’s Forum. I send very special regards to VC Prof Sir Hilary Beckles at this time and I am sure you all know why. We have your back Sir! I also wish...

Will Provenance Research Delay Restitution Of Looted African Artefacts? Listen to article “The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with cheap arguments and tricks.” Gert v. Paczensky and Herbert Ganslmayr, Nofretete will nach Hause. (1) There have been in recent months a lot of references to provenance research whenever there is talk of...

Ambassador Sidi Omar is Frente POLISARIO Representative at the United Nations A UN patrol team, deployed for monitoring ceasefire, drives through the Smara area of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he ‘remains committed’ to maintaining the 1991 ceasefire in Western Sahara. Credit: UN Photo/Martine Perret NEW YORK, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) - The question of Western Sahara, known as Africa’s last colony, has recently gained great visibility in international med...

02/18/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/18/2021 12:34 Expedite Decolonization Imperative, Secretary-General Urges, as Special Committee Accepts Dominica’s Offer to Host Caribbean Regional Seminar Members Elect Bureau, Adopting Programme of Work, Timetable as 2021 Session Begins Expediting the decolonization process must be seen as an imperative, United Nations Secretary-General Antônio Guterres told the Special Committee on Decolonization today, emphasizing that a const...

Cuba in vice presidency of the UN Committee on Decolonization Cuba in vice presidency of the UN Committee on Decolonization 18 de febrero de 2021, 16:35 United Nations, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuba was elected on Thursday to the vice presidency of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, a position it assumes with the commitment to continue fighting to eradicate colonialism in any of its manifestations. Cubas permanent representative to the United Nations Pedro Luis Pedroso said so on assumin...

Rohingyas plight surrounding non-recognition is as old as the history of colonialism in South Asia and South East Asia. Their identity crisis has gone through clinical strategies and oppression forwarded by Myanmar government at different times. Historically, Rohingyas are designated as Kalar or Kula (lower class of people in a society) by the supremacist Buddhist believers. Undermining the Rohingya identity by disowning and calling them illegal immigrants is a part of Theravada Buddhism that l...

There Is No Right to a State “LET’S BE CLEAR,”tweeted the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) last month, “Arguing that the Jewish people is the only people in the world not entitled to self-determination is a form of antisemitism.” It’s a claim that in recent years has become ubiquitous in American Jewish establishment discourse. On the same day as DMFI’s tweet, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), penned an op-ed declaring that �...

By Kester Kenn Klomegah Russia not only supported African countries in liberating themselves from the yoke of colonialism and attaining political independence but also facilitated in the UN General Assembly adopting in 1960 the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. It’s a landmark document which states that all people have a right to self-determination and proclaimed that colonialism should be brought to a speedy and unconditional end. Russia has now ...