05 Feb Canadian lawyer helps win compensation for indigenous people (The Vancouver Sun)
Africa’s top human rights body, relying partly on a Canadian precedent, issued a landmark ruling Thursday in favour of an indigenous group that has been fighting for justice since the Kenyan government forced them off their land in the 1970s to create a tourist-drawing game reserve. The decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights establishes two key international law precedents, according to the London-based Canadian lawyer who argued on behalf of the impoverished Endorois community… go to article