The UN committee has now called on the UK and Mauritius to suspend ratification of the treaty and to resume negotiations with ...

Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on British, Mauritian governments to suspend ratification of deal on ...

Labour has been accused of "betraying" the UK by handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, a close ally of ...

A U.N. committee on Monday urged Britain and Mauritius not to ratify a deal seeking to settle the future of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, saying it risks perpetuating long-standing ...

GENEVA - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today expressed deep concern that a recent bilateral agreement between ...

A deal to keep the UK-US military base running in the Chagos Archipelago is projected to see £34.7 billion handed to Mauritius over the next 99 years. Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti ...

A new framework informed by Stanford-led research and stakeholder convenings balances conservation with cultural heritage and sustainable resettlement of communities removed from an island chain ...

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22. While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it elicited ...

The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world’s largest coral atoll structure—marking a major advance in understanding the geographic range of this ...

Thousands of exiles from the isolated Chagos Archipelago—a cluster of atolls in the Indian Ocean that houses a critical American military base and is owned by Britain—may have won time in their ...