Abstract
Calls for an international mechanism to monitor implementation of the 2007 United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration) are growing louder. The Declaration is the most comprehensive articulation of the contours of Indigenous peoples rights. The product of more than two decades of intensive negotiations and lobbying by Indigenous peoples and their supporters, it affirms Indigenous peoples rights to internal self-determination, their lands and resources, culture, equality and development, amongst others. As a non-budgetary resolution of the UN General Assembly the Declaration is not strictly binding in the way that a UN treaty is. Yet, aspects of the Declaration form part of customary international law. Since the Declarations adoption, the idea of a monitoring mechanism has been raised both informally and formally. But in the past year the idea has gained momentum
Original language | English |
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Pages | 35-36 |
No. | December 2015, Volume 1 |
Specialist publication | Live Encounters |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |