Indigenous peoples and human rights / Patrick Thornberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornberry, Patrick, author.

Series:

Melland Schill studies in international law .

Melland Schill studies in international law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Cultural policy.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights. The primary reference point is contemporary law, though the book also examines the history of indigenous peoples through the lens of historical legal discourses. The work critically assesses the politics of definition and analyses contested definitions and descriptions of indigenous groups. Most of the chapters are devoted to detailed examination of existing and emerging human rights texts at global and regional levels. Among the instruments considered in the book are the International Covenants on Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, and the ILO Conventions on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Table of cases

List of abbreviations

Introduction

I Indigenous peoples in international law

1 We are still here

2 Who is indigenous?

3 Ambiguous discourses

4 The age of rights

II Global instruments on human rights

5 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights I

6 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights II

7 The Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

8 Racial discrimination and indigenous peoples – in particular under the Racial Discrimination Convention

9 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

III Regional human rights protection and indigenous groups

10 The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; African perspectives on indigenous peoples

11 The Inter-American system and indigenous peoples

12 European instruments on human and minority rights

IV ILO treaties on indigenous peoples

13 ILO standards I

14 ILO standards II

V Emerging standards specific to indigenous peoples

15 The UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

16 The Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

VI Indigenous peoples and human rights

17 Indigenous peoples and the discourses of human rights

Annexes

1 ILO Convention No. 107 on Indigenous and Tribal Populations

2 ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

3 UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

4 CERD General Recommendation VIII

5 CERD General Recommendation XXIII

6 CERD General Recommendation XXIV

7 General Comment of the HRC on the rights of minorities

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-480) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-71949-4

1-78170-061-3

1-929446-19-5

0-7190-3793-X

0-7190-3794-8

OCLC:

1132671462