The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule.

The United Nations Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, or the Special Committee on Decolonization, is a committee of the United Nations General Assembly that was established in 1961 and is exclusively devoted to the issue of decolonization.

(also epistemic decolonization or epistemological decolonization) a concept advanced in decolonial scholarship that critiques the perceived hegemony of Western knowledge systems.