Indigenous rights and United Nations standards : self-determination, culture and land / Alexandra Xanthaki.
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Indigenous rights and United Nations standards : self-determination, culture and land / Alexandra Xanthaki.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (xxxix, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 52.
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Series-title
Title
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Contents
Table of cases
International courts
League of Nations
Permanent Court of Justice
International Court of Justice
United Nations Human Rights Committee
Regional courts
African Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
European Court on Human Rights
National Courts
Australia
Canada
Norway
United States
Table of statutes
United Nations documents
Conventions and Treaties
UNESCO:
Declarations
Resolutions (other than the above)
Recommendations and other non-binding documents
International Labour Organisation documents
Conventions/Declarations
Recommendations
Requests, Observations and Reports
Other international instruments
Regional documents
Africa
Americas
Europe
Indigenous Organisations' documentation
National legislation/documentation
Australia
Cambodia
Canada
Guatemala
Norway
Pakistan
Philippines
Russian Federation
South Africa
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
1 Recognition of cultural membership and implications
Introduction
The importance of cultural membership
Autonomy and the neutral state
The need for multiplicity of cultural frameworks
Interaction of cultures
Preservation of cultures
Especially on collective rights
Concluding comments
Notes
PART I United Nations instruments on indigenous peoples
2 The ILO Conventions
Convention No. 107
Convention No. 169
Notes
3 Emerging law: The United Nations draft Declaration on indigenous peoples
Process and status of the draft Declaration
The contents of the draft Declaration
Concluding comments
Notes
PART II Thematic analysis
4 Do indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination?
Introduction
Are indigenous peoples beneficiaries of the right?
The scope of the right to self-determination
Re-evaluating the meaning of the right
Concluding comments
Notes
5 Indigenous cultural rights
Introduction
Overview of standards relevant to indigenous peoples
Obstacles to the effective protection of indigenous cultural rights by international law
Specific issues concerning cultural rights
Concluding comments
Notes
6 Indigenous land rights
Introduction
Legal basis for indigenous land claims
Important issues related to indigenous land claims
Concluding comments
Notes
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Last Page.
Half-title
Series-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Table of cases
International courts
League of Nations
Permanent Court of Justice
International Court of Justice
United Nations Human Rights Committee
Regional courts
African Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
European Court on Human Rights
National Courts
Australia
Canada
Norway
United States
Table of statutes
United Nations documents
Conventions and Treaties
UNESCO:
Declarations
Resolutions (other than the above)
Recommendations and other non-binding documents
International Labour Organisation documents
Conventions/Declarations
Recommendations
Requests, Observations and Reports
Other international instruments
Regional documents
Africa
Americas
Europe
Indigenous Organisations' documentation
National legislation/documentation
Australia
Cambodia
Canada
Guatemala
Norway
Pakistan
Philippines
Russian Federation
South Africa
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
1 Recognition of cultural membership and implications
Introduction
The importance of cultural membership
Autonomy and the neutral state
The need for multiplicity of cultural frameworks
Interaction of cultures
Preservation of cultures
Especially on collective rights
Concluding comments
Notes
PART I United Nations instruments on indigenous peoples
2 The ILO Conventions
Convention No. 107
Convention No. 169
Notes
3 Emerging law: The United Nations draft Declaration on indigenous peoples
Process and status of the draft Declaration
The contents of the draft Declaration
Concluding comments
Notes
PART II Thematic analysis
4 Do indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination?
Introduction
Are indigenous peoples beneficiaries of the right?
The scope of the right to self-determination
Re-evaluating the meaning of the right
Concluding comments
Notes
5 Indigenous cultural rights
Introduction
Overview of standards relevant to indigenous peoples
Obstacles to the effective protection of indigenous cultural rights by international law
Specific issues concerning cultural rights
Concluding comments
Notes
6 Indigenous land rights
Introduction
Legal basis for indigenous land claims
Important issues related to indigenous land claims
Concluding comments
Notes
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Last Page.
Summary
The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations forums, can be accommodated by international law. By doing so, it also highlights how the indigenous debate has stretched the contours and ultimately evolved international human rights standards. The book first reflects on the international law responses to the theoretical arguments on cultural membership. After a comprehensive analysis of the existing instruments on indigenous rights, the discussion turns to self-determination. Different views are assessed and a fresh perspective on the right to self-determination is outlined. Ultimately, the author refuses to shy away from difficult questions and challenging issues and offers a comprehensive discussion of indigenous rights and their contribution to international law.
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English
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9780511494468 ebook
9780521835749 (hardback)
9780521172899 (paperback)
9780521835749 (hardback)
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