Human Rights Joint Committee on the Chagos: Phillipe Sands: "Without this agreement, the Chagossians will never return"

The Human Rights Joint Committee of the British Parliament held a one-off session on Wednesday, February 4, to examine whether the agreement on the Chagos Islands, signed in May 2025, complies with the United Kingdom's international obligations towards the Chagossian people, who were forcibly displaced between 1968 and 1973 for the establishment of the US military base on Diego Garcia.

Even before this parliamentary committee, experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council had...