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10 - Human Rights and the Chagos Advisory Opinion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2021

Thomas Burri
Affiliation:
Universität St Gallen, Switzerland
Jamie Trinidad
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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The Advisory Opinion rendered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 case1 constitutes a further piece of a complex jigsaw which we will refer to broadly as the Chagos case. It relates to a group of small islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean (the Chagos Archipelago); its former inhabitants (the Chagossians); the United Kingdom, which today administers the Archipelago under the designation ‘British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)’; Mauritius, which claims the Archipelago as part of its own territory; the United States, which operates a military basis in Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Archipelago; and a number of other actors, including states like the Seychelles and the Maldives, and the African Union (AU).

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The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation
New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion
, pp. 187 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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