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Diverse Perspectives on the Impact of Colonialism in International Law: The Case of the Chagos Archipelago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Namira Negm
Namira Negm*
Affiliation:
Legal Counsel for the African Union Commission.
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FREEDOM … AFRICA FREE OF DECOLONIZATION … that was the dream of our founding fathers from Nyerere, Nasser, Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, to Lumumba, and many others. The call for freedom laid the basis for the African unity, so it came as no surprise that we, at the African Union, had the support of an entire continent, with its fifty-five member states, to defend the Mauritian Cause to free Chagos.

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Diverse Perspectives on the Impact of Colonialism on International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 68 - 71
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 Albert Memmi, Colonizer and the Colonized 68 (1965).

2 Christian Nauvel, A Return from Exile in Sight? The Chagossians and Their Struggle, 5 Nw. J. Hum. Rts. 96 (2007), available at https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njihr/vol5/iss1/4.

3 Id.

4 See also Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v. UK), Award (Perm. Ct. Arb. Mar. 18, 2015), available at https://files.pca-cpa.org/pcadocs/MU-UK%2020150318%20Award.pdf (UN Dossier No. 409).

5 See also AHG/Res. 99 (XVII); AHG/Dec.159 (XXXVI); Assembly/AU/Res.1 (XVI); Assembly/AU/Dec.331 (XV); Assembly/AU/Dec.684 (XXX).

6 UN Charter Art. 1(2). Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, Advisory Opinion, para. 142 (Int'l Ct. Just. Feb. 25, 2019), at https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/169/advisory-opinions [hereinafter Chagos Advisory Opinion].

7 GA Res. 1514 (1960).

8 Chagos Advisory Opinion, supra note 6, para. 3 (diss. op, Donoghue, J.).