{"id":939,"date":"2007-10-01T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/939"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:05:23","slug":"the-uk-chagos-support-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"The UK Chagos Support Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linked with Marie Lisette Talate – Mauritius<\/a>, and with the Chagos Refugees Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s and 70s, Britain secretly and illegally threw the Chagos islanders off their islands, to make way for a US military base. Four decades on their fight jor justice continues. The Government is appealing to the House of Lords to overturn a third court ruling in the islanders’ favour …<\/p>\n

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After more than twenty years of debate, the United Nations General Assembly recently adopted a declaration upholding the rights of indigenous people, including their right to restitution or compensation for land that is taken away from them.<\/p>\n

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The UK welcomed the declaration, saying: \u00ab\u00a0We recognise that indigenous peoples have suffered many historic injustices and continue to be amongst the poorest and most marginalised peoples of the world…\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

…But the statement went on to say that the UK and its territories do not have any indigenous people. Oh well.<\/p>\n

UK INTERPRETATIVE STATEMENT ON DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES on chagossupport.org.uk<\/a>. (Source: the Foreign & Commonwealth Office).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linked with Marie Lisette Talate – Mauritius, and with the Chagos Refugees Group. In the 1960s and 70s, Britain secretly and illegally threw the Chagos islanders off their islands, to make way for a US military base. Four decades on their fight jor justice continues. The Government is appealing to the House of Lords to … Continuer la lecture de « The UK Chagos Support Association »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14949,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/14949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}