100 Years Ago — Marcus Garvey and the 1920 Declaration

Stephen Jensen, Senior Researcher with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, recently published an essay in the South African paper The Daily Maverick, on the 1920 Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World.  Writes Jensen:

“Drafted and adopted in New York at the first annual convention of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World laid out many themes that have continued to shape human rights debates up until today. A forgotten document, its story deserves to be brought to light – perhaps more than ever in a year that has brought racial inequalities and the #BlackLivesMatter movement to the forefront of international political debate.”

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