This study of the rights of indigenous peoples looks at the historical, cultural, and legal background to the position of indigenous peoples in different cultures, including America, Africa and Australia. It defines ’indigenous peoples’ and looks at their position in international law.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
Part I Indigenous peoples in international law: basic notions
1 We are still here
2 Who is indigenous?: Concept, definition, process
3 Ambiguous discourses: indigenous peoples and the development of international law
4 The age of rights1
Part II Global instruments on human rights
5 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights I
6 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights II: Article 27 and other global standards on minority rights
7 The Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
8 Racial discrimination and indigenous peoples – in particular under the Racial Discrimination Convention
9 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: in particular Article 30
Part III Regional human rights protection and indigenous groups
10 The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; African perspectives on indigenous peoples
11 The Inter-American system and indigenous peoples
12 European instruments on human and minority rights
Part IV ILO treaties on indigenous peoples
13 ILO standards I
14 ILO standards II: Convention 169
Part V Emerging standards specific to indigenous peoples
15 The UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
16 The Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Part VI Indigenous peoples and human rights
17 Indigenous peoples and the discourses of human rights: a reflective narrative
Om författaren
Patrick Thornberry is Professor of International Law in the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, University of Keele, and a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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