On January 26, 2022, Fergus MacKay, Senior Counsel at the Forest Peoples Programme gave a special lecture in the undergraduate LLB course, 'Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights' at the Faculty of Law, The UWI, Mona, on the ‘Inter-American Jurisprudence on Maroons/’Tribal Peoples’: Saramaka People and other cases’.

Mr. MacKay has litigated several cases before United Nations treaty bodies, the International Labour Organization, and the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, including Saramaka People (2007) and Kaliña and Lokono Peoples (2015).

He refers to this short documentary, 'Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini: 2009 Goldman Prize Winners, Suriname' on the case and the Saramaka Maroons in his lecture    • Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini: 2009 G...  


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