Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / edited by Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xii) and index.

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : background and appraisal / Erica-Irene Daes -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : from advocacy to implementation / Julian Burger -- Intergrating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into CERD practice / Patrick Thornberry -- The International Labour Organization and the internationalisation of the concept of indigenous peoples / Andrew Erueti -- Using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in litigation / Clive Baldwin and Cynthia Morel -- Making the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples work : the challenge ahead / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- The three ironies of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / H. Patrick Glenn -- Beyond the indigenous/minority dichotomy? / Will Kymlicka -- Voting in the General Assembly as evidence of customary international law? / Emmanuel Voyiakis -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the limits of the international legal project / Stephen Allen -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : new directions for self-determination and participatory rights? / Helen Quane -- A new dawn over the land : shedding light on collective ownership and consent / Jérémie Gilbert and Cathal Doyle -- The controversial issue of natural resources : balancing states' sovereignty with indigenous peoples' rights / Stefania Errico -- Indigenous rights and the right to development : emerging synergies or collusion? / Joshua Castellino -- Taking cultural rights seriously : the vision of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Elsa Stamatopoulou -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and collective rights : what's the future for indigenous women? / Alexandra Xanthaki -- Community rights to culture : the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Johanna Gibson -- The inter-American system and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : mutual reinforcement / Luis Rodríguez-Pinero -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Africa : the approach of the regional organisations to indigenous peoples / Rachel Murray -- Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : an Arctic perspective / Dalee Sambo Dorough -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : recent developments regarding the Saami people of the north / Malgosia Fitzmaurice -- Between the deveil and the deep blue sea : indigenous peoples as the pawns in the US "War on terror" and the jihad of Osama Bin Laden / Javaid Rehman.

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The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of indigenous rights. This is the first in-depth academic analysis of this far-reaching instrument. Indigenous representatives have argued that the rights contained in the Declaration, and the processes by which it was formulated, obligate affected States to accept the validity of its provisions and its interpretation of contes.

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