Canadian court upholds compensation order for Indigenous children and other stories

Today we look at a court ruling in Canada to provide compensation for Indigenous children affected by the foster system, the dropping of all charges against 3 leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, and more

September 30, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up, we take a look at a landmark ruling to compensate Indigenous children affected by Canada’s discriminatory foster system; the dropping of all charges against 3 leaders of South Africa’s shack-dwellers movement or Abahlali baseMjondolo; the rising death toll in the prison massacre in Ecuador’s Guayaquil city; and protests in Lebanon against the suspension of an investigation into the 2020 Beirut Blast.