Making the Declaration work :

"The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a culmination of a centuries-long struggle by indigenous peoples for justice. It is an important new addition to UN human rights instruments in that it promotes equality for the world's indigenous peoples and recognizes their collective rights.

The Declaration is the fruition of the work of scores of individuals over more than 25 years of protracted and intense negotiations. In a first for multi-lateral human rights negotiations, indigenous peoples, as rights-bearers, sat alongside UN and governmental leaders and diplomats, driving the recognition of their rights under international law.

The authors of this collective book, of interest to the specialist as well as the general public, were for many years intimately involved in the Declaration process. It tells the story of the Declaration from the inside, detailing its history, negotiations, content and broader significance. Contributions come from the world over ranging from indigenous activists, to members of the Human Rights Council and its various working groups and mechanisms, as well as UN and governmental officials who engineered the process from beginning to end." -- Provided by publisher

Call Number: 
K3247 .M25 2009
Title Responsibility: 
Claire Charters and Rodolfo Stavenhagen (eds.).
Author Information: 
Claire Charters is currently a co-director of the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law. Claire’s primary area of research is in Indigenous peoples’ rights in international and constitutional law, often with a comparative focus. Claire is working on articles on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the relationship between tikanga Māori and the state legal system, tensions between human rights and Indigenous peoples' rights and on the legitimacy of Indigenous peoples' rights under international law, which will be published as a book by Cambridge University Press. Rodolfo Stavenhagen was a sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states. He was a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México. In 2001 he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people through Resolution 2001/57. His mandate expired 30 April 2008.
Production Place: 
Copenhagen : [New Brunswick, N.J.] :
Producer: 
IWGIA ; Distributors Transaction Publisher [and] Central Books,
Production Date: 
2009
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Multiple Nations
Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
7255508
Law Subject(s): 
Human Rights
Table of Contents: 
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