Human rights for the colonized

“It might be predicted that when colonial peoples set about drafting a Bill of Rights, their claims will tally generally with those of depressed and disabled groups everywhere, but will also show a special distribution of emphasis corresponding to the special character of colonial disabilities,” wrote the British anti-colonialist writer Leonard J. Barnes (1895-1977). An excerpt of his article, “The Rights of Dependent Peoples”, sent to UNESCO from London in June 1947, follows.