Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Rights of Indigenous Peoples

This section provides an overview of rights of indigenous peoples within the legal context of International Economic Law and Human Rights in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges).

U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

In relation to the international law practice and U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in this world legal Encyclopedia (see the main entry here), please see the following section:

Use of Force, Arms Control, Disarmament, Nonproliferation

About this subject:

Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament

Note: there is detailed information and resources, in relation with these topics during the year 2011, covered by the entry, in this law Encyclopedia, about Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

Further Reading

• Anaya, S. J. (1991). Indigenous rights norms in contemporary international law. Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 8, 1–39.
• Anderson, J. (2010). Indigenous traditional knowledge and intellectual property. Durham, NC: Duke University, Center for the Study of Public Domain.
• Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1995). The post-colonial studies reader. New York: Routledge.
• Barsh, R. L. (1993). A “new partnership” for indigenous peoples: Can the United Nations make a difference? American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 17(1), 197–227.
• Bennett, G. (1978). Aboriginal rights in international law. London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Occasional Paper No. 37.
• Bose, T. K. (1996). Definition and delimitation of the indigenous peoples of Asia. In C. Erni (Ed.), Vines that won’t bind (pp. 39–50). Copenhagen: IWGIA Document No. 80, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
• Brosted, J. et al. (1986). Native power: The quest for autonomy and nationhood of indigenous peoples. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Goodin, R. E. (2000). Waitangi tales. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 78, 309–333.
• Hannum, H. (1988). New development in indigenous rights. Virginia Journal of International Law, 28, 649–679.
• Howard, B. R. (2003). Indigenous peoples and the state: The struggle for native rights. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
• International Labor Organization. “History of ILO’s work,” indigenous and tribal peoples, about us. Retrieved from https://www.ilo.org/indigenous/Aboutus/HistoryofILOswork/lang-en/index.htm.
• Keal, P. (1995). “Just backward children”: International law and the conquest of non-European peoples. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 49, 191–206.
• LaDuke, W. (1994). Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental futures. In Endangered peoples: Indigenous rights and the environment. University Press of Colorado.
• Manus, P. (2005). Sovereignty, self-determination, and environment-based cultures: The emerging voice of indigenous peoples in international law. Wisconsin International Law Journal, 23, 553–642.
• Morgan, R. (2007). On political institutions and social movement dynamics: The case of the United Nations and the global indigenous movement. International Political Science Review, 28(3), 273–292.
• Newcomb, S. (2011). The UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples and the paradigm of domination. Griffith Law Review, 20(3), 578–607.
• Oguamanam, C. (2004–2005). Indigenous peoples and international law: The making of a regime. Queen’s Law Journal, 30, 348–398.
• Piechowiak, M. (2000). What are human rights?: The concept of human rights and their extra-legal justification. In R. Hanski & M. Suksi (Eds.), An introduction to the international protection of human rights (pp. 3–14). Turku/Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi University.
• Ryser, R. C. (1989). Who will govern Indian community? In Indian self-governance: Perspective on the political status of Indian Nations in the United States of America. In Carol J. Minugh, Glenn T. Morris, & Rudolph C. Ryser (Eds.), (pp. 91–104). Kenmore, WA: Center for World Indigenous Studies.
• Sanders, D. (1989). The UN working group on indigenous populations. Human Rights Quarterly, 11, 406–433.
• Simpson, T. (1997). Indigenous heritage and self-determination: The cultural and intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples. The Forest Peoples Programme and IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs).
• Sundaram, S. (2005). Battling bills, beans and biopiracy. Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, 15(2), 545–578.
• Thornberry, P. (2002). Indigenous peoples and human rights. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press.
• Tsosie, R. (2000). Sacred obligations: Intercultural justice and the discourse of treaty rights. UCLA Law Review, 47, 1615–1672.
• Westra, L. (2008). Environmental justice and the rights of indigenous peoples: International and domestic legal perspectives. Padstow: Earthscan.
• Wilmer, F. (1993). The indigenous voice in world politics: Since time Immemorial. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.