Canadian lawyer helps win compensation for indigenous people (The Vancouver Sun)

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