Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Between International Recognition, New Visibility, and Common Infringements
Bellier, Irène
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Between International Recognition, New Visibility, and Common Infringements - 2018.
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When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, the recognition in international law of these peoples invisibilized by the modern construction of the State and marginalized by dominant societies, marked their integration into the humanity. Ten years after this event that extended the catalog of human rights, adding collective rights to the panoply of individual rights, this article looks back on the developments of the indigenous peoples movement. It recalls the importance for these “new” subjects of law to participate in matters that concern them, the institutionalization of indigenous issues and the construction of a transnational space that places their issues in all the scenarios of global governance. While violations are not always punished by litigation, the author clarifies the linkages between human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples and the existence of regional rights systems that are supposed to enforce them.
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Between International Recognition, New Visibility, and Common Infringements - 2018.
52
When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, the recognition in international law of these peoples invisibilized by the modern construction of the State and marginalized by dominant societies, marked their integration into the humanity. Ten years after this event that extended the catalog of human rights, adding collective rights to the panoply of individual rights, this article looks back on the developments of the indigenous peoples movement. It recalls the importance for these “new” subjects of law to participate in matters that concern them, the institutionalization of indigenous issues and the construction of a transnational space that places their issues in all the scenarios of global governance. While violations are not always punished by litigation, the author clarifies the linkages between human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples and the existence of regional rights systems that are supposed to enforce them.
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