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Perkins <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note2">2</a></strong></h2> <p class="c3">Copyright &copy; 1992-2012, <a href="mailto:SCPerkins@gmail.com">Steven C. Perkins</a>. All rights reserved. This is a revision of a document prepared for presentation at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. It may be reproduced for non-profit educational use if this notice appears on the reproduction.</p> <hr> <div class="c4" id="menu">: <a href="http://iemlnews.blogspot.com/">Indigenous and Ethnic Minority News Blog</a> : <a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/recommended.html">Recommended Books</a> : <a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/recentarticles.html">Selected Recent Articles</a> :<a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2About.html">About</a> :</div> <hr> <hr> <p class="pg c3"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <table class="c6" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Introduction">I: Introduction</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Background/Definitions">Background Definitions</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Legal%20Arguments">Legal Arguments</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Present%20Activities">Present Activities</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Permanent%20Forum%20on%20Indigenous%20Issues">Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20Working%20Group%20on%20Indigenous%20Populations">The Working Group on Indigenous Populations</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20Working%20Group%20Established%20in%20Accordance%20with%20Commission%20on%20Human%20Rights%20Resolution%201995/32%20of%203%20March%201995">The Working Group Established in Accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Task%20Force%20on%20Indigenous%20Women">Task Force on Indigenous Women</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Task%20Force%20on%20Indigenous%20Women"></a><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Task%20Force%20on%20Indigenous%20Women"></a><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#International%20Labor%20Organization">International Labor Organization</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20World%20Intellectual%20Property%20Organization">The World Intellectual Property Organization</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20World%20Bank">The World Bank</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Other">Other Activities</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Areas%20of%20Interest">Areas of Interest</a></li> </ul> <p><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Researching">II: Research Sources</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#General%20Research%20Aids">A: General Research Aids</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Bibliographies">Bibliographies</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Computer%20Services">Computer Services</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Textbooks">Textbooks</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Periodicals">Periodicals</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Treatises">Treatises</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#International%20Legal%20Documents">B: International Legal Documents</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Treaties">Treaties</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Collections">Collections of Documents</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Current%20Documents">Current Documents</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#International%20Organizations">1: International Organizations</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20United%20Nations">The United Nations</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20Council%20of%20Europe">The Council of Europe</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20Organization%20of%20American%20States">The Organization of American States</a></li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li class="c5"> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Non-Governmental%20Organizations">2: Non-Governmental Organizations</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Specific%20Geographic%20Areas">C: Specific Geographic Areas</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Africa">Africa</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#The%20Americas">The Americas</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#North%20America">North America</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#South%20America">South America</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Asia">Asia</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#New%20Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Europe">Europe</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Specific%20Topics">D: Specific Topics</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Apartheid">Apartheid</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Cultural">Cultural Resources</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Education">Education</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Genocide">Genocide</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Humanitarian%20Intervention">Humanitarian Intervention</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Indigenous%20Peoples">Indigenous Peoples</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Minority%20Rights">Minority Rights</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Natural%20Resources">Natural Resources</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Religion">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#Self%20Determination">Self Determination</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr width="100%"> <p>Please send any suggestions for additional links or corrections to me at <a href="mailto:SCPerkins@gmail.com">SCPerkins@gmail.com</a>. I hope that this paper proves useful in your research.</p> <div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-679881-2"; urchinTracker(); </script></div> <div class="c4"><a href="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html" id="clustrMapsLink" name="clustrMapsLink"><img src="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html" border="1" alt="Locations of visitors to this page"></a></div> <p class="c3"><a name="Introduction" id="Introduction">INTRODUCTION</a></p> <p>The UN declared 1993 as The International Year for the World's Indigenous Peoples <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note3">3</a></strong>. The decade from 1995 to 2004 was declared as the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Recognizing the continuing need for attention to indigenous peoples' needs, the decade from 2006 through 2015 has been declared the <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second.html">Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples</a>. In addition the General Assembly will hold a  World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014, under the terms of Resolution recommended by Third Committee <a href://"http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/65/L.22/Rev.1">[A/C.3/65/L.22/Rev.1]</a>.In light of this original and continuing interest in Indigenous Peoples, this paper will serve as an introduction to researching indigenous peoples' rights under international law. International law has seldom considered indigenous peoples rights separately from the concerns of the general matters of international law. This paper will introduce this emerging area of legal development. At the present time, development in this area appears to be confined to the subject of international human rights law. It is anticipated by this writer and others, that this topic will of necessity develop into a discussion of the general principles of societal organization and nation building, directly addressing the legitimacy of numerous nation-states within the community of nations subject to international law. All present international human rights documents and doctrines apply to indigenous people throughout the world. This paper will not rehearse all of these documents and the organizations which have promulgated and enforce them. It will discuss those organizations and resources which have directly addressed the concerns of indigenous peoples under the regime of International Law.</p> <h3><a name="Background/Definitions">BACKGROUND DEFINITIONS:</a></h3> <p>While human rights have been the subject of legal and political thought for many years, the specific concerns of indigenous peoples have been submerged by the dominant colonial societies which have controlled access to domestic and international legal fora. In the Americas, the Anglo-Europeans and the Spanish and Portugese have engaged in deliberate campaigns to eradicate the native american cultures. Of the three other major colonies established by the English, Australia and New Zealand have followed the American example, while only India was able to establish its independence as a nation-state under native control. Outside control and internal disunity have been forced on indigenous people through several devices. One of the most effective is the use of language to deny the unique status of various groups. This can be illustrated by the problem of defining indigenous status vis-a-vis minority status, and in the use of either peoples or populations to refer to distinct groups within a modern nation-state <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note4">4</a></strong>. To be indigenous or a people confers a psychological benefit over being merely a minority population. That this is recognized by the governing powers is illustrated by the debates in both the ILO and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations on the use of the words people or population. While the ILO decided to use both words, the Working Group uses populations. The debate makes clear that the reason to use population rather than people is to lessen the weight of any argument for self-determination and territorial independence by the indigenous peoples against the majority settler nation- states within which they have been submerged.<strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note5">5</a></strong></p> <p>In Europe, the following may be considered as indigenous populations: the Celtic peoples of the British Isles, Brittany in France and Galicia in Spain; the Basque peoples of France, Portugal and Spain; The Sami or Lapp people of Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the former Soviet Union. In Asia, there are various tribal or hill peoples in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China and the Ainu people in Japan. In addition there are numerous indigenous groups in Siberia, some of whom are considered as part of the Inuit or Eskimo peoples also present in Alaska, Canada and western Greenland. In Africa, the Berbers and the San or Bushmen may be considered as indigenous peoples. Most Asian and African states deny that there are any indigenous peoples within their territories. Bangladesh was subjected to considerable pressure in the UN by the ILO before it would address the issue of the Chittagong Hill People.<strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note6">6</a></strong>. In Oceana there are indigenous groups in the Philippines, Indonesia, Borneo and Papua New Guinea. Generally these peoples live in the forests. The Native Hawaiians also fit within Oceana. In Australia are the Aboriginal peoples. In New Zealand are the Maori peoples. The displacement of indigenous peoples is usually the result of an invasion of their territory by an ethnically and culturally different group which then attempts to convert the native population to the conquerors' cultural norms and suppresses the indigenous peoples culture and history. Usually, the conqueror believes its culture is materially and spiritually superior to that of the indigenous group. In most cases, the invader is able to establish sufficient control over the territory and society to force the indigenous population to deal with the imposed legal system in attempting to redress the injustice inherent in the process of conquest. Needless to say, the indigenous people lose most legal cases until the dominant society accepts its responsibility to make amends. An example of this acceptance process is the creation and operation of the Waitangi tribunal in New Zealand which deals with land title cases between the Maori and the European settlers. In the Waitangi tribunal the Maori have the majority vote <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note7">7</a></strong>.</p> <h3><a name="Legal Arguments">LEGAL ARGUMENTS</a></h3> <p>Robert A. Williams, Jr. in <span class="title">The American Indian in Western Legal Thought</span> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) discusses the legal theories which were used to justify the western conquest of indigenous peoples <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note8">8</a></strong>. He derives these from the practices of the Catholic Popes, the medieval crusades against Islam, and the concept of Just War. Arrogating to themselves the care of all humans on the Earth, the Popes eventually believed themselves capable of dividing all non-christian territories and peoples among the Catholic faithful of Portugal and Spain. Early commentators on the rights of indigenous peoples under international law, Francisco de Victoria <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note9">9</a></strong>, and Bartholome de Las Casas, believed that indigenous peoples personal and property rights were equal to those of the Conquistadores <strong><a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html#note10">10</a></strong>. This view was opposed by Sepulveda. Although de Victoria and de Las Casas were supported by the Spanish King, the Viceroys in New Spain ignored and actively subverted the legal regulations meant to protect the indigenous people from exploitation and death. Conquest and slavery were justified by the fact that the indigenous peoples were not Christians. This was ritualized in the Requerimiento, intended to give the natives the chance to adopt Christianity and avoid conquest, it was turned into a sham to allow conquest. Its early unchecked development with its undeniable result for the Conquistidores of personal and national wealth, encouraged later imperialist adventures by the English and French in the Americas and Asia.</p> <p>Another doctrine, which has recently been abandoned by the Australian Supreme Court in the <a href="http://bar.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/high_ct/175clr1.html">Mabo Decision</a> (MABO AND OTHERS v. QUEENSLAND (No. 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 F.C. 92/014), is that of <em>Terra Nullius</em>. Under this doctrine, empty, unsettled or unpopulated land could be claimed by any one who would settle and develop it. South Africa and Australia have been the champions of this doctrine. Again, this doctrine is culturally arrogant in that it presupposes that land which is not developed or used as a European would use it is undeveloped or unpopulated. Many of our environmental problems come from this attitude of exploitation, which cannot accept that the experience of thousands of years of living in a place may have taught the indigenous peoples the best use for their lands. It is instructive to contemplate the difference between the success of colonization in the Americas and Asia. The French in Indo-China and the English and Portugese in India eventually retreated from those colonies where they were unable to displace the indigenous populations. The same happened to the French and Belgians in Africa. In the Americas, European contact brought death from the spread of diseases for which the indigenous peoples had no natural immunity. By the time the English got to North America, these diseases had made their first passage throughout the continent and had caused a demographic collapse on a tremendous scale. Disease took a high toll among the tribes on the Trail of Tears when blankets from a smallpox infected regiment were given to the marchers. Throughout the world, indigenous peoples continue to have high mortality rates from common diseases due to deliberate policies of neglect and inadequate health care facilities.</p> <h3><a name="Present Activities">Present Activities:</a></h3> <h4>The Economic and Social Council</h4> <p>The Economic and Social Council controls several organs of the UN concerned with human rights. It is the parent of the former Commission on Human Rights. (Documents produced with other inter-governmental agencies are in the E-series. The annual report to the U.N. General Assembly appears as Supplement to GAOR. Its own documents are in the U.N. ESCOR, series, in a Supplement). The COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, of the ECOSOC was an important organ in the U.N. Human Rights system. Its publications are in the ECN.4- series. It produced reports, resolutions and decisions. The Commission had supervision of the <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/sc.htm">Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities</a>. The Sub Commission has several Ad-Hoc Working Groups: the Working Group of Experts on South Africa; the Working Group of Experts to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories; and the Working Group of Experts on Chile. Their reports will generally be in the ECN.4- series. Those of the Working Group on Chile often appear in the AC.3- series of the Third Committee of the General Assembly.</p> <h4>Human Rights Council</h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> has replaced the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/index.htm">Commission on Human RightsA/RES/60/251</a> of 3 April 2006. At its First Session in June, 2006, it adopted the Draft Declaration on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and recommended it to the General Assembly for adoption, <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/docs/declaration.doc">HRC/RES/2006/2</a>.</p> <h4><a name="Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues">Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a></h4> <p><a name="Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues">The</a> <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/">Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a> was established by the ECOSOC on 28 July 2000 and it held its first session from 13 to 24 May 2002. Its mandate covers economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health, and human rights as they apply to indigenous peoples. A secretariat was established to assist the Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues in February, 2003.</p> <h4><a name="The Working Group on Indigenous Populations">The Working Group on Indigenous Populations:</a></h4> <p>We are interested in the Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Created in 1982, the WGIP was the principal UN group concerned with indigenous peoples rights until the <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/">Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a> was established in 2000, and started work in May of 2002.</p> <p>The Working Group was first presaged by Sub-Commission Resolution 4 B (XXIII) of 26 August 1970 and the resulting Economic and Social Council Resolution 1589 (L) para. 7, and their call for a comprehensive study of the problem of discrimination against indigenous populations. In accord with the Economic and Social Council's resolution, the Sub-Commission appointed Mr. Jose R. Martinez Cabo as Special Rapporteur to make such a study. It resulted in a report <span class="title">The Study of the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations</span>, with 22 chapters. It was issued in a consolidated form in five volumes as UN DOC ECN.4Sub.219867 and Add.1-4. The WGIP documents appear in the ECN.4Sub.2year22 series. It has issued a <span class="title">Report on the Working Group on Indigenous Populations</span> each year since 1982. At the <a href="http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/demo/1993min.html#IB12">45th Session of the ECOSOC</a>, it recommended that the WGIP Report be made a UN Sales Document to make it more readily available. Of interest is the <span class="title">Report on the United Nations Seminar on the effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on the Social and Economic Relations between Indigenous Peoples and States</span>, U.N. Doc. ECN.4198922.</p> <p>The main project of the WGIP has been the drafting of a <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu4/subres/9445.htm">Universal Declaration on Indigenous Rights</a>. The Working Group, in the Preamble, has, like the ILO, rejected the assimilationist orientation of ILO Convention 107, in favor of recognition of the independent nature of the existence of indigenous peoples. This has not been well recieved by all nations, i.e., see, UN Doc. ECN.4Sub.2198933Add.1 at 17 for the comments of Venezuela, and U.N. Doc. ECN.4Sub.2AC.419892Add.1. Part I makes all previous human rights instruments applicable to indigenous peoples. Part II sets out guarantees of cultural rights. Part III describe the property rights of indigenous peoples. This section is controversial since it originally called for recognition of collective property rights and compensation. Part IV deals with indigenous econimic and social systems. Part V gives standards for self-determinism by indigenous peoples. This part is controversial since the settler states do not desire to lose their control over indigenous peoples' land. Particular objection has been taken to paragraph 23 which describes a collective right to autonomy. Part VI define a dispute resolution process, states the purpose of the declaration and prohibits states from using the declaration against indigenous peoples. For the text of the First Revised Draft Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples see, 16 Am. Ind. L. Rev pp.592-596 (1991). See the link above for the text of the Declaration as of 26 August 1994. The most recent text was reported to the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/">Human Rights Council</a> in its first session, and was adopted and forwarded to the General Assembly on 29 June 2006, <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/docs/declaration.doc">HRC/Res/2006/2</a>.</p> <h4>The Working Group Established in Accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995</h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/index.htm">Commission on Human Rights</a> established the <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/10/c/ind/ind_main.htm#chrwg">Working Group established in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 1995</a>, also known as the Working Group of the Commission on the Draft Declaration.</p> <p>Communications to the WGIP can be sent to this address:</p> <address>U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations<br> Centre for Human Rights<br> Palais des Nations<br> Geneva 10 CH-1211<br> Switzerland</address> <h5>Articles:</h5> <p>The first citation below is to an article which thoroughly analyses the operations of the WGIP and the Declaration.</p> <p>Iorns, C.J. "Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination", 24 <span class="title">Case Western Reserve J. Int'l L.</span> p. 199 (Spring 1992).</p> <p>Burger, Julian. "The United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples", 9 <span class="title">St. Thomas L.Rev.</span> pp. 209-229 (Fall 1996).</p> <p>Sanders, Douglas, "The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations", 11 <span class="title">Human Rights Quarterly</span> pp. 406-433 (1989).</p> <p>Stomski, L., "The Development of Minimum Standards for the Protection and Promotion of Rights for Indigenous Peoples", 16 <span class="title">Am. Ind. L.Rev.</span> p.575 (1991).</p> <p>Each year's work of the Sub-Commission and its Working Groups is reviewed annually in the Current Developments section of the American Journal of International Law.</p> <p>The U.N. instruments on Human Rights are most easily accessible in <span class="title">Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments</span>, New York: United Nations, (1988) STHR1Rev.3. They are also found in the <span class="title">UN Treaty Series</span>. Recent instruments are usually available in <span class="title">International Legal Materials</span>. The status of the instruments can be determined in the following publication, <span class="title">Human Rights: Status of International Instruments</span>, New York: United Nations, (19XX) STHR5. The U.N. Sales Catalogue lists various collections of the U.N. Human Rights instruments. They are also available on-line at <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm">UNHCHR International Human Rights Instruments</a></p> <h4><a name="Task Force on Indigenous Women">Task Force on Indigenous Women</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ianwge/taskforces/tfIndigenousWomen2005.htm#4">The Task Force on Indigenous Women</a> was established by the <a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ianwge/index.html">Inter Agency Network on Women and Equality</a> and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs on 11 June 2004. Reports have been issued in <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/Report_Task%20Force_%20on_IW_final.doc">2005</a>, <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/TFIW_report_feb_06.pdf">2006</a>, and <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/TFIW_Report_2007_final.pdf">2007</a>.</p> <p>The following publication gives an overview of the work of the Task Force and relates 18 case studies, <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/publications/Indigenous/indwomen07.htm">Indigenous Women and the United Nations System</a></p> <h4><a name="International Labor Organization">International Labor Organization ILO Convention 107:</a></h4> <p>From 1957 until 1982, the <a href="http://www.ilo.org/">International Labor Organization</a> was the only international body with any concern with indigenous peoples rights. In 1957 it promulgated <span class="title">ILO Convention 107 on Living and Working Conditions of Indigenous Populations</span>. This document tended to reflect the views of the settler societies and to promote the absorption of indigenous populations into the settler societies. See, <span class="title">International Labor Review</span>, v.LXIV, No.1, July 1951, p.61, and v.LXX, No.5, Nov 1954, p.418, for conclusions from the two sessions of the Committee of Experts on Indigenous Labour from the 114th and 125th Sessions. For materials received from national governments in contemplation of the Convention 107 see the following: ILConf., <span class="title">Report VIII (1) 39th Session 1956 Eighth Item on the Agenda: Living and Working Conditions of Indigenous Populations in Independent Countries</span>, Geneva: ILO 1955. ILConf., <span class="title">Report VIII (2) 39th Session 1956 Eighth Item on the Agenda: Living and Working Conditions of Indigenous Populations in Independent Countries</span>, Geneva: ILO 1956. For comments on the Proceedings of the 39th Session and for the proposed convention text see, ILConf <span class="title">40th Session 1957 Sixth Item on the Agenda: Protection and Integration of Indigenous and other Tribal and Semi-Tribal Populations in Independent Countries</span>, ILO, Geneva 1956. For the submission and discussion of the <span class="title">Report of the Committee on Indigenous Populations</span> see, ILConf. 39th Session, Geneva, 1956 Record of Proceedings, pp.530-546. The Report is Appendix XI, pp.736-751.</p> <p>The Committee rendered a new report in 1956 for submission and discussion, see ILConf. 40th Session Geneva, 1957 Record of Proceedings, pp.400-417. The Report of the Committee is Appendix IX, pp. 722-740, with the Proposed Reccomendation at p. 737. The notes adopting the Convention and the Recommendation are recorded at pp. 492 and 494. The authentic texts are in Appendix XVI, pp. 804 and 818. The Proceedings of the 39th Session of the Conference relating to Indigenous Populations in Independent Countries and the proposed texts of the Convention and Recommendation are also in <span class="title">Report VI (1) ILConf. 40th Session 1957, Sixth Item on the Agenda: Protection and Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-tribal Populations in Independent Countries</span>, Geneva, ILOff. 1956. Replies from governments to the proposed Convention and Recommendation were printed in ILOff.: <span class="title">Protection and Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-tribal Populations in Independent Countries, Report VI (2)</span>, ILConference, 40th Session, 1957 (Geneva, 1956).</p> <h5>Convention 169:</h5> <p>In the 1980s it became apparent that Convention 107 was no longer an effective instrument and that its stated aims did not comport with the desires of the emerging indigenous rights movement. At the 234 Session in November 1986 the Governing Body of the ILO placed on the Agenda for the 75th Session of the ILConf. an item on the Partial Revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Conv., 1957 (No. 107). This followed the report of the Meeting of Experts on the Revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Conv, 1957 (No. 107) of September 1986. The Report and the proposed revision are reproduced in ILConf, <span class="title">Partial revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107)</span>, ILOff, Report VI (1) 75th Session 1988, Geneva 1987. Replies of Governments to the Report of the Conference are printed in ILO: <span class="title">Partial revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107)</span>, Report VI (2) (Geneva, 1988), ILConf., 75th Session, Geneva, 1988..</p> <p>A new Report VI (1) was issued for the 76th Session of the ILCong. Replies from governments to that report were issued in ILO: <span class="title">Partial revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107) Report VI (2A)</span> (Geneva, 1989) ILConf 76th, 1989. The Proposed text of the revision was published in ILO:<span class="title">Partial revision of the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107) Report VI (2B)</span>, (Geneva 1989), ILConf, 76th Session, 1989. The Provisional Record of the 76th Session contains the Report of the Committee, the proposed Convention and a Resolution on ILO action ILC, Provisional Record 25 and 25A of 25 June 1989 and 27 June 1989.</p> <p>On 11 May 2005 the ILO released it's <a href="http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/22.htm">Report on Forced Labor</a></p> <blockquote>"Most forced labour today is still exacted in developing countries where older forms of forced labour are sometimes transmuting into newer ones, notably in a range of informal sector activities, the report says. Debt bondage frequently affects minorities - including indigenous peoples - that have long experienced discrimination on the labour market, and locks them in a vicious cycle of poverty from which they find it ever more difficult to escape. Many victims are working in remote geographical areas, where labour inspection presents a particular challenge."</blockquote> <h5>Treatises on ILO:</h5> <p>Bennett, <span class="title">Aboriginal Rights in International Law</span> (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, Occasional Paper no. 37, 1978).</p> <p><span class="title">Indigenous peoples, living and working conditions of aboriginal populations in independent countries</span>. Geneva, 1953.</p> <p>International Labour Office Studies and reports, new ser., no. 35.</p> <h5>Articles:</h5> <p>Barsh, R.L. "An Advocate's Guide to the Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples", 15 <span class="title">Oklahoma City U.L.Rev.</span> 209 (1990). This article reprints the final text of Convention 169 at pp.237-253.</p> <p>Barsh, R.L. "Revision of ILO Convention No. 107", 81 <span class="title">Am. J. Int'l L</span>. 756 (1987).</p> <p>Swepston, L. "A New Step in the International Law on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: ILO Convention No. 169 of 1989", 15 <span class="title">Oklahoma City U.L.Rev.</span> 677 (1990).</p> <h4>World Intellectual Property Organization:</h4> <p>The <a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/www.wipo.int/">World Intellectual Property Organization</a> (WIPO) recently concluded a <a href="http://www.wipo.int/eng/meetings/1998/indip/index.htm">Roundtable on Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property</a>. The papers presented at that meeting are on-line at the above URL. This represents a change from WIPO's earlier rejection of any claims to legitimacy from indigenous peoples against the intellectual property rights regime.</p> <h4>The World Bank</h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/">World Bank</a> has issued a revision of its Indigenous Peoples Policy OD 4.20, the <a href="http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/63ByDocName/PoliciesRevisedDraftOperationalPolicyonIndigenousPeoplesRevisedDraftOP410">Revised Draft Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples</a>. The world Bank maintains a web site on its policies toward indigenous peoples at this address: <a href="http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/63ByDocName/IndigenousPeoples">http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/63ByDocName/IndigenousPeoples</a></p> <h4><a name="Other" id="Other">Other Activities:</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/hrc.htm">The U.N. Human Rights Committee</a> has heard cases dealing with indigenous people under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 27 in particular, on the right to enjoy a "culture", has been a basis for the Committee's work. In addition to the Views on the Committee's web page above, the following cites have full-text or summaries of the Views: full-text Sessions 1-59, <a href="http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/undocs.htm">Decisions and Views of the Human Rights Committee</a> University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library; summaries of all Views, <a href="http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/hrsympo/ebody/views.htm">Japan Federation of Bar Associations, List of Views by HRC</a>. In <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/oppro/vws671.htm">Lansman et. al. v. Finland, Communication No.671/1995</a>, the Committee held for Finland against the Sami over plans to develop logging in an area used for traditional herding activities. An earlier proceeding between the same parties also resulted in a finding for Finland against the Sami in regard to a stone quarry in the same traditional herding area, <a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/oppro/511hrc.htm">Lansman et.al. v. Finland, Communication No.511/1992</a>. In the <span class="title">Ominayak v. Canada</span> case the Committee decided that no claim for self-determination can be brought under the Optional Protocol, (Communication No. 167/1984). In the <span class="title">Ivan Kitok v. Sweden</span> case, it held for the government against an individual who wanted to regain indigenous status, (GAOR Supp. (No.40) (43rd Session), U.N. Doc. A4340197 1985 (Communication No.197/1985). In the <span class="title">Lovelace v. Canada</span> case it held for Lovelace that Canadian regulations violated the Covenant, (GAOR Supp. (No.40) (36th Session), U.N. Doc. A43640, Annex XVIII (1981)).</p> <h3><a name="Areas of Interest">AREAS OF INTEREST:</a></h3> <p>The following topics are now or will become areas of interest for indigenous people in this decade:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Self-determination</strong> will be the most problematic topic since it could lead to a very different world map. It should be recognized that this topic strikes at the legitimacy of the settler regimes and will be resisted. the establishment of <a href="http://npc.nunavut.ca/">Nunavut</a> in Canada, and the arrangement between Greenland and Denmark may be indicators that opinion is changing on this issue;</li> <li>Questions have been raised in regard to <strong>intellectual property rights</strong> for medicines developed from plants and traditional medical practices of indigenous peoples. The general scenario is that a researcher learns of a traditional medicine and investigates its use and effectiveness. The researcher then refines the drug and a patent issues to the researcher or his company. In most cases no compensation is given to the tribe which had preserved and actually discovered the medicine. A proposal to reform the process to ensure compensation to the indigenous people involved was recently discussed and rejected by the World Intellectual Property Organization. This issue will not go away;</li> <li>Related to the above is control over the <strong>exploitation of natural resources</strong> located on the traditional lands of indigenous peoples. At present these resources are usually claimed by the settler society which gets any fees or profits from expoitation without regard to the needs or desires of the indigenous peoples;</li> <li><strong>Preservation of cultural traditions and languages</strong> is a high priority for many indigenous peoples who are usually a minority in the settler society. Most such majority societies have been extremely reluctant to allow the use of indigenous languages in formal governmental activities. There does appear to be movement toward greater acceptance of this demand;</li> <li><strong>Compensation</strong> for the theft of land and property by the settler societies is a topic of contention. The reactions to the <a href="http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/bibwaitr.htm">Waitangi Tribunal</a> in New Zealand, and to the Mabo Decision in Australia indicate the problems in meeting competing equities.</li> </ul> <p class="pg"><a name="Researching" id="Researching">RESEARCH SOURCES</a></p> <p>While all states guarantee to their citizens certain civil, political and social rights, it is international law which guarantees to all people certain universal human rights. Indigenous peoples rights have been treated as a category of general international human rights law. International law research focuses on identifying conventions or treaties, customary international law, international legislation, case decisions, and monographic and periodical commentary which apply to the situation under consideration. Four inter-governmental organizations sponsor the present human rights regimes: <a href="http://www.un.org/">the United Nations</a>; <a href="http://www.oas.org/">the Organization of American States</a>; <a href="http://www.coe.fr/index.htm">the Council of Europe</a>; and, <a href="http://www.africa-union.org/home/Welcome.htm">the African Union</a>. All of these international inter-governmental organizations sponsor treaties, conventions, covenants, declarations, and resolutions which may or may not be considered to be one of the first three categories of sources for international law. Of these, only the United Nations, through the International Court of Justice, the International Labor Organization, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the Working Group of the Commission on the Draft Declaration, and the Human Rights Committee, and the Organization of American States, with the Draft of the Inter-american Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (AG/RES 1022 (XIX-0/89)), have dealt with the rights of indigenous peoples under international law.</p> <h3><a name="General Research Aids">GENERAL RESEARCH AIDS:</a></h3> <p>The following items are essential for undertaking research in international law:</p> <p>John W. Williams. <span class="title">Guide to International Law Research</span>. Salem, N.H. : Butterworths, 1990. This entire volume is devoted to international law research. It is suggested that you read the introduction and then parts V and VI, Practice and Research Aids and Reference Sources. The remaining parts can then be consulted as needed. It contains excellent short discussions of the documentation systems for the United Nations, the European Economic Community, the Organisation of American States and the U.S. Government Printing Office.</p> <p>Szladits, <span class="title">A Bibliography of Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles in English since 1790</span>. A multi-volume work.</p> <p><span class="title">Public International Law</span>, New York; Berlin: Springer Verlag, is a semi-annual periodical published by the Max Planck Institute in West Germany.</p> <p>A copy of the following books should be in every human rights collection:</p> <p>Marie, Jean Bernard. <span class="title">Glossaire des droits de l'homme : termes fondamentaux dans les instruments universels et regionaux : francais-anglais = Glossary of human rights : basic terms in universal and regional instruments</span>. Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, c1981.</p> <p>Stormorken, Bjorn and Zwaak, Leo. <span class="title">Human Rights Terminology in International Law: A Thesaurus</span>. Dordrecht Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Pubs., 1987.</p> <p>Laurie Weisburg. <span class="title">A Guide to Establishing a Human Rights Documentation Centre</span>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University; Ottawa: Human Rights Centre, Univ. of Ottawa, 1990.</p> <h4><a name="Bibliographies" id="Bibliographies">BIBLIOGRAPHIES:</a></h4> <h5>General Human Rights Bibliographies</h5> <p><span class="title">Human rights : a topical bibliography</span>, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University in the City of New York ; prepared by the staff of the Center, J. Paul Martin, project director and editor, Louis... Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1983.</p> <p><span class="title">Human rights : an international and comparative law bibliography</span>, compiled and edited by Julian R. Friedman and Marc I. Sherman. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.</p> <p><span class="title">Human rights : international bibliography 1975-1981 = Droits de l'homme : bibliographie internationale 1975-1981</span>. Strasbourg : Cerdic Publications, 1982.</p> <p><span class="title">International human rights : a bibliography, 1970-1975</span>, Barry O'Connor, compiler and editor ; John A. Scanlan, project director. Rev. ed. Notre Dame, Ind. : Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, 1980.</p> <p>Miller, William. <span class="title">International human rights : a bibliography, 1970-1976</span>, William Miller, compiler and editor ; Donald P. Kommers, project director. Notre Dame, Ind. : Center for Civil Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, 1976.</p> <p>Rusis, Armins. <span class="title">Human rights : a selective bibliography</span> by Armins Rusis. Washington : Library of Congress, European Law Division, [1969?].</p> <p>Shimane, Robert. <span class="title">International human rights : a selected bibliography</span> compiled by Robert Shimane and Robert Rich. Los Angeles : University of Southern California Law Center, 1979.</p> <p>Stanek, Edward. <span class="title">A bibliography of periodicals and other serials on human rights</span>, Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, [1991].</p> <p>Stanek, Edward. <span class="title">A bibliography of selected human rights bibliographies, documentary compilations, periodicals, reports, and reference books essential for the study of international and comparative law of human rights</span>. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1987].</p> <p>Stanek, Edward. <span class="title">Human rights : a selected bibliography of monographs, essays, serials, and basic compilations of documents, and bibliographies pertinent to international protection of human rights</span>. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1987].</p> <p>Verstappen, Berth. <span class="title">Human rights reports : an annotated bibliography of fact-finding missions</span>. London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers, 1987.</p> <p>Young, Thomas D. <span class="title">International human rights : a selected bibliography</span>. Los Angeles : Center for the Study of Armament &amp; Disarmament, California State University Los Angeles, 1978.</p> <h5>Bibliographies on Indigenous Peoples:</h5> <p>Fritz, Linda. <span class="title">Native law bibliography</span>. [Saskatoon, Saskatchewan] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Center, 1984.</p> <p>Fritz, Linda. <span class="title">Native law bibliography</span>. 2nd ed. [Saskatoon] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1990.</p> <p>Narby, Jeremy. <span class="title">Resource development and indigenous peoples : a comparative bibliography</span>, compiled by Jeremy Narby and Shelton Davis. Boston, Mass. (37 Temple Place, Room 521, Boston, Mass. 02111) : Anthropology Resource Center, c1983.</p> <p>Roy, Bernadette Kelly. <a href="http://www.ciesin.org/dosc/010-284/toc.html"><span class="title">The rights of indigenous peoples in international law : an annotated bibliography</span></a>, by Bernadette Kelly Roy and Dallas K. Miller. Saskatoon, Sask. : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1985.</p> <p>Roy, Bernadette Kelly. <span class="title">The rights of indigenous peoples in international law : an annotated bibliography. Supplement--1986</span>, by Bernadette Kelly Roy and Ruth Thompson. [Saskatoon, Sask.] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1986.</p> <h4><a name="Computer Services">COMPUTER SERVICES:</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.lexis-nexis.com/">LEXIS</a>: LEXIS provides fulltext searching of various legal databases. Included are English and French cases and legislative materials and the cases of the European Court of Justice. This coverage is largely post W.W.II. You must use the French language to search in the French and the European Court of Justice databases. NEXIS: NEXIS is a general coverage fulltext service containing several databases of current affairs materials. This database should be used for information on topics which have not yet received coverage in the legal periodicals. Its main strength is coverage of foreign publications and wire services.</p> <p><a href="http://www.westgroup.com/">WESTLAW</a>: WESTLAW is basically the same as LEXIS for legal materials. Each service includes materials not in the other. The reader is referred to the respective service's database list for information on coverage.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dialog.com/">DIALOG</a> and <a href="http://dialog.krinfo.com/">DialogWeb</a>: DIALOG was originally an internal information service for the Lockheed Aircraft Company. At the present time DIALOG offers access to over 100 separate electronic databases which cover all fields of knowledge. Various of these may have information of use to you in your research.</p> <p><a href="http://www.oclc.org/">OCLC</a>: OCLC is the bibliographic utility used by libraries for cataloguing materials received. OCLC also allows the libraries to locate materials by the name of the author or the title of a book. This means that if an item is located and if the holding library will loan it it can be obtained or copied through Inter-Library Loan.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rlg.org/">RLIN</a>: Recently RLIN, the main bibliographic utility for research libraries in the United States, has added a database for UN documents and the <span class="title">Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals</span> to its EUREKA database product.</p> <p>INTERNET/USENET: the former BITNET and the current INTERNET and are electronic networks which link educational and research institutions. Each service hosts discussion lists for the exchange of information among persons with common interests. Millions of sites are now available on the INTERNET that deal with indigenous peoples.</p> <p>Most people access the INTERNET through one of the numerous search engines: <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>; <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a>; <a href="http://search.msn.com/">MSN Search</a>; and <a href="http://scholar.google.com/">Google Scholar</a> are those most often used. Researchers are reminded to explore the advanced search features of each search engine in order to get the most relevant results.</p> <p>These sites are of use in researching indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities:<br> <a href="http://www.findlaw.com/">FindLaw</a><br> <a href="http://www.worldlii.org/">World Legal Information Institute</a><br> Dykes, Christopher C., <a href="http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Researching_Indigenous_Peoples_International_Law.htm">Research Guide on Indigenous Peoples International Law</a></p> <p>USENET allows for the worldwide distribution of news items. It also has topical discussion lists. An interface to the full system allowing searching for groups of interest is at <a href="http://groups.google.com/">Google Groups</a>.</p> <p>BBS Systems: BBS systems are electronic bulletin boards set up by individuals or companies to allow for remote communications. These have been largely replaced by INTERNET sites and blogs.</p> <h4><a name="Textbooks" id="Textbooks">TEXTBOOKS:</a></h4> <p>Clinton, R.N., N.J. Newton and M.R. Price. <span class="title">American Indian Law, 3rd Edition</span>. Charlottesville: Michie, (1991). This volume contains an excellent concluding chapter which explores the international dimensions of indigenous rights.</p> <p>Buergenthal, T. <span class="title">International Human Rights in a Nutshell</span>. Minneapolis: West Pub. Co., 1990.</p> <p>Newman, F. and D. Weissbrodt. <span class="title">International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process</span>. Cincinnati: Anderson Pub., 1990. Excellent documentary supplement.</p> <p>Robertson, A.H. and J.G. Merrills. <span class="title">Human rights in the world: An Introduction to the Study of the International Protection of Human Rights. 3rd ed.</span> [Manchester, Eng.] Manchester University Press, 1989.</p> <p>Graefrath, Bernhard. <span class="title">Menschenrechte und internationale Kooperation : 10 Jahre Praxis des Internationalen Menschenrechtskomitees</span> Bernhard Graefrath. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1988.</p> <p><span class="title">Basic documents pertaining to human rights in the inter-American system.</span> Washington, D.C. : IACHR Court, General Secretariat, Organization of American States, 19xx.</p> <h4><a name="Periodicals" id="Periodicals">PERIODICALS</a></h4> <p>Journal articles can be identified in the <span class="title">Index to Legal Periodicals and Books</span>, <span class="title">Current Law Index</span>, <span class="title">Legal Resource Index</span>, <span class="title">Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals</span>, and the <span class="title">Index to Commonwealth Legal Periodicals</span>. Although no longer published, the <span class="title">Index to Human Rights Documents, 1960-1976</span>, is still useful. It is recommended that the researcher make it a habit to read the following periodicals:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/titles/hrq.html"><span class="title">Human Rights Quarterly</span></a>, Johns Hopkins University Press. <a href="http://www.law.uc.edu/morgan2/index.html">Index to vols 1-18</a>;</li> <li><span class="title">Revista de IIDH/Review of the IAIHR</span>, <a href="http://www.iidh.ed.cr/enginfo.html">Inter-American Institute of Human Rights</a>. <a href="http://www.iidh.ed.cr/revista.html">Indexes from No. 21</a>;</li> <li><a href="http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/"><span class="title">Native Americas: Akwe:kon's Journal of Indigenous Issues</span></a> Ithaca, N.Y.: Akwe:kon Press, American Indian Program, Cornell University. <a href="http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/Default2.html">Indexes</a>;</li> <li><span class="title">Human Rights Law Journal</span>, N.P. Engel, Pub.;</li> <li><span class="title">International Human Rights Reports</span>, <a href="http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ellzweb/hrlc.htm">Human Rights Law Center</a>, Department of Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.;</li> <li><a href="http://www.icj.org/%7Eicj/publica.html"><span class="title">Review of the International Commission of Jurists</span></a>, <a href="http://www.icj.org/%7Eicj/index.html">International Commission of Jurists</a>, Geneva;</li> <li><a href="http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/nqhr/"><span class="title">Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights</span></a>, <a href="http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/">Netherlands Institute of Human Rights</a>;</li> <li><a href="http://www.asil.org/Abtajo.htm"><span class="title">The American Journal of International Law</span></a>, <a href="http://www.asil.org/">American Society of International Law</a>; and,</li> <li><span class="title">The Human Rights Internet Reporter</span>, <a href="http://www.hri.ca/">Human Rights Internet</a>;</li> <li><a href="http://databases.hri.ca:81/cftribune/"><span class="title">The Human Rights Tribune Magazine</span></a>, <a href="http://www.hri.ca/">Human Rights Internet</a>.</li> </ul> <h4><a name="Treatises" id="Treatises">TREATISES:</a></h4> <p>Burger, Julian. <span class="title">The Gaia atlas of first peoples : a future for the indigenous world, Julian Burger with campaigning groups and native peoples worldwide</span>; foreword by Maurice F. Strong. New York : Doubleday; London: Robertson McCarta, c1990.</p> <p>Henderson, George, <span class="title">A practitioner's guide to understanding indigenous and foreign cultures</span>. Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : Charles C. Thomas, c1989.</p> <p>Heinz, Wolfgang S., <span class="title">Indigenous populations, ethnic minorities and human rights</span>. Berlin : Quorum Verlag, c1988.</p> <p>Burger, Julian. <span class="title">Report from the frontier : the state of the world's indigenous peoples</span>. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1987.</p> <p><span class="title">Indigenous peoples : a global quest for justice : a report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues</span>, foreword by Sadruddin Aga Khan and Hassan bin Talal. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1987.</p> <p>Nettheim, Garth. <span class="title">Indigenous rights, human rights and Australia</span>. London : Australian Studies Centre, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, [1987]. Series title: Working papers in Australian studies ; working paper no. 15.</p> <p><span class="title">The rights of indigenous peoples in international law : selected essays on self-determination</span>, edited by Ruth Thompson. [Saskatoon, Sask.] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1987.</p> <p><span class="title">Self determination and indigenous peoples ; Sami rights and northern perspectives</span>, compiled and edited from the Seminar Self-determination and Indigenous Peoples ; organised by the Oslo and Copenhagen local groups... Copenhagen : IWGIA, 1987. IWGIA document ; 58.</p> <p>McGill, Stuart. <span class="title">Indigenous resource rights and mining companies in North America and Australia</span>, Stuart McGill, G.J. Crough. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.</p> <p><span class="title">The Rights of indigenous peoples in international law : workshop report</span>, edited by Ruth Thompson. [Saskatoon, Sask.] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1986.</p> <p><span class="title">Indigenous peoples and the nation-state : 'fourth world' politics in Canada, Australia, and Norway</span>, edited by Noel Dyck. St. John's, Nfld., Canada : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1985. Series title: Social and economic papers ; no. 14.</p> <p><span class="title">Native power : the quest for autonomy and nationhood of indigenous peoples</span>, edited by Jens Brosted ... [et al.]. Bergen : Universitetsforlaget, c1985.</p> <p>International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 9th, Chicago, 1973. <span class="title">Western expansion and indigenous peoples : the heritage of Las Casas</span>, editor, Elias Sevilla-Casas. The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, c1977.</p> <p>Farmer, Richard N. <span class="title">Benevolent aggression; the necessary impact of the advanced nations on indigenous peoples</span>. New York, David McKay Co. [c1972].</p> <h3><a name="International Legal Documents">INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS:</a></h3> <h4><a name="Treaties" id="Treaties">Treaties and other Agreements on Human Rights:</a></h4> <p>The articles below discuss treaty research.</p> <p>Bernal, Marie-Louise H. "Reference Sources in International Law." 76 <span class="title">Law Library Journal</span> pp. 427-435 (Summer 1983).</p> <p>Kavass, Igor I. "United States Treaties and International Agreements: Sources of Publication and 'legislative history' Documents." 76 <span class="title">Law Library Journal</span> pp. 442-457 (Summer 1983).</p> <p>Sprudzs, Adolf. "International Legal Research: an Infinite Paper Chase" 16 <span class="title">Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law</span> pp. 521-536 (Summer 1983).</p> <p>Weisbaum, Earl. "Domestic Sources of International Law" 76 <span class="title">Law Library Journal</span> pp. 436-441 (Summer 1983).</p> <p>Parry, Clive. "Where to Look for Your Treaties" 8 <span class="title">International Journal of Law Libraries</span> pp. 8-18 (1980).</p> <p>Human Rights Treaties:</p> <p>The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights maintains an on-line collection of <a href="http://intelligent-internet.info/law/www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm">International Human Rights Instruments</a>. The following are the principal human rights treaties:</p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_udhr.htm">UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS</a>;</p> <p>Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 10 Dec. 1948, G.A. Res. 217A (III), 3 U.N. GAOR (Resolutions, pt. 1) at 71, U.N. Doc. A810 (1948).</p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm">INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS</a> ;</p> <p>International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted 16 Dec. 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (entered into force 23 March 1976). There are two Optional Protocols to this Covenant: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted 16 Dec. 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 302 (entered into force 11 Nov. 1970); and, Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on CIvil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, adopted 15 Dec. 1989, G.A.Res. 44128, 44 U.N. GAOR Supp. (no. 49) at 206, U.N.Doc. A44824 (1989).</p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm">INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS</a> ;</p> <p>International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, adopted 16 Dec. 1966, 993 U.N.T.S. 3 (entered into force 3 Jan. 1976).</p> <p><a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/pg17-25.htm">AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN</a> ;</p> <p>American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, signed 2 May 1948, Res. XXX. Final Act, Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogata, Colombia, 30 March - 2 May, 1948, at 38 (Pan American Union 1948), O.A.S. Off. Rec. OEASer.LVII.23?doc. 21Rev. 6 (English 1979).</p> <p><a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/pg25-52.htm">AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS</a> ;</p> <p>American Convention on Human Rights, opened for signature 22 Nov. 1969, O.A.S.T.S. No. 36 (entered into force 18 July 1978). There is one Additional Protocol: Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), opened for signature 17 Nov. 1988, O.A.S.T.S. No. 69 (1989).</p> <p><a href="http://www.coe.fr/eng/legaltxt/e-dh.htm#conv-dh">EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS</a> ;</p> <p>European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 4 Nov. 1950, Eur.T.S. No. 5, 213 U.N.T.S. 221 (entered into force 3 Sept. 1953). There are eight Protocols to the Convention: Protocol 1, Eur.T.S. No. 9, 213 U.N.T.S 262 (1952); Protocol 2, Eur.T.S. No. 44 (1963); Protocol 3, Eur.T.S. No. 45 (1963); Protocol 4, Eur.T.S. No. 46 (1963); Protocol 5, Eur.T.S. No. 55 (1966); Protocol 6, Eur.T.S. No. 114 (1983); Protocol 7, Eur.T.S. No. 117 (1984); and, Protocol 8, Eur.T.S. No. 118 (1985). All have been in force since 1 January 1990.</p> <p>HELSINKI FINAL ACT ;</p> <p>Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Final Act, signed 1 Aug. 1975, 73 Dep't. State Bull. 323 (1975).</p> <p>AFRICAN CHARTER OF HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS ;</p> <p>African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, adopted 27 June 1981, O.A.U. Doc. CABLEG673Rev. 5 (1981) (entered into force 21 Oct. 1986). .</p> <h4><a name="Collections" id="Collections">COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</a></h4> <p><span class="title">Documentation sources in human rights</span>, Directorate of Human Rights, Human Rights Documentation Centre. Strasbourg : Council of Europe ; Croton, N.Y. : Manhattan Pub. Co. [distributor, 1990].</p> <p>Sohn, Louis B., and Thomas Buergenthal, comps. <span class="title">International Protection of Human Rights</span>. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.</p> <p>Brownlie, Ian, comp. <span class="title">Basic Documents on Human Rights</span>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.</p> <h4><a name="Current Documents">CURRENT DOCUMENTS:</a></h4> <p><span class="title">International Legal Materials</span> is published 6 times a year by the <a href="http://www.asil.org/">American Society of International Law</a>.</p> <blockquote>ILM attempts to reprint all of the important documents of use in the area of international law which have come out in the preceeding 2 months. It also reprints the U.S. Department of State Bulletin Treaty section. Prior to 1961 these materials were published in the <span class="title">American Journal of International Law</span> and in its special publications.</blockquote> <p><span class="title">International human rights instruments of the United Nations, 1948-19xx</span>, collected and arranged by the UNIFO editorial staff. Pleasantville, N.Y. : UNIFO Publishers.</p> <p>Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar. <span class="title">The international covenant on civil and political rights : application of the rights contained in the covenant, the optional protocol and their relevance to indigenous peoples in periods of emergency and armed...</span> [Santa Clara? : S.n., 1982?].</p> <h4><a name="International Organizations">I. INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS</a></h4> <h5><a name="The United Nations">THE UNITED NATIONS</a></h5> <p>To obtain current U.N. sales catalogues write:</p> <address>United Nations Publications Sales Section<br> Room DC 2-0853 Dept. 218<br> New York, NY 10164-0512 U.S.A</address> or <address>United Nations Publications<br> Palais des Nations<br> CH-1211 Geneva 10<br> Switzerland</address> <p>On-line orders:<a href="http://unp.un.org/">UN Publications</a><br> North America, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific:<br> telephone: 11-800-253-9646; fax: 1-212-963-3489; email: publications@un.org<br> Europe, Africa and the Middle East:<br> telephone: 41(22) 917-2614; fax: 41(22) 917-2613; email: unpubli@unog.ch</p> <p>Because many items concerning Human Rights are published throughout the U.N. documentation series, it is always necessary to search the official U.N. index series, UNDOC, and the unofficial indexes, as well, for document citations.</p> <p>The primary index to United Nations documents until September 1996 was the <span class="title">UNDOC, the United Nations Documents Index</span>. The manner of issuance and the descriptive terms used for indexing seem to change every few years. Effective use of the UNDOC only comes from prolonged exposure and examination. The UN has recently made an online service available for document research. It replaced the UNDOC. An interim finding aid will be issued to cover the period from the end of the UNDOC to the beginning of the replacement publication. The free <a href="http://documents.un.org/">UN Official Documents System</a> is now online. It covers official records from 1993. A CD-ROM database is available for the most recent years from Readex Microprint Corporation.</p> <p>The following items should always be consulted: <span class="title">The Yearbook on Human Rights</span>, sales #E.81XIV.1 This is published by the Centre of Human Rights. <span class="title">Annual Review of United Nations Affairs</span>, published by Oceana Publications, Dobbs Ferry, New York. The latter is generally available before the former, but it does not provide the detailed document citations found in the official publication. For a detailed listing of U.N. documents on Human Rights through 1981, see, Diana Vincent-Daviss, "Human Rights Law: A Research Guide to the Literature-Part I: International law and the United Nations", 14 <span class="title">NYU Journal of International Law and Politics</span>, pp. 209-319, (1981); pp. 486-573 (1982); 15 <span class="title">NYU J Int'l L&amp;P</span> pp.211- 287 (1982). This article and its continuations treat all areas of Human Rights. It also contains a brief review of the U.N. documentation system and its abbreviations.</p> <p>Three other items of interest are: John Williams, <span class="title">Guide to International Legal Research</span>, Salem, NH: Butterworths, 1990. This volume is devoted to international law research and it contains brief reviews of the U.N. and the OAS documentation systems and symbols as well as the European Community; Thomas H. Reynolds, "Highest Aspirations or Barbarous Acts...The Explosion in Human Rights Documentation: A Bibliographic Survey", 71 <span class="title">Law Library Journal</span> p. 1, (1978), a review article which serves as a broad introduction to the sources of Human Rights documentation throughout the world.; and, Maureen Ratynski, TThe United Nations and Human Rights", 19 <span class="title">Documents To The People</span> pp. 25-30 (1991).</p> <h5><a name="The Council of Europe">THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE</a></h5> <p>The primary Human Rights organization for western Europe is the <a href="http://www.coe.fr/">Council of Europe</a>. The Council controls the European Commission on Human Rights which was set up under provision of the European Convention on Human Rights. Here we will discuss the Council of Europe; the European Commission on Human Rights; the Committee of Ministers; the European Convention on Human Rights, and the European Court of Human Rights. While these are treated as separate sources, in practice the Council of Europe appears in all of the titles. For a short article on the human rights regime under the Council see, Ellen G. Shaffer, "Human Rights Protection Under the Council of Europe - The System and its Documentation", 19 <span class="title">Int'l J. Legal Information</span> pp.1-10, (1991).</p> <p>The Council of Europe has an annual sales catalogue which can be obtained from the following addresses:</p> <address>Council of Europe Publications<br> Section 67006<br> Strasbourg CEDEX (France)</address> or in the USA &amp; Canada: <address>Manhattan Pub. Co.<br> 80 Brook Street<br> P.O. Box 650<br> Croton, NY 10520</address> . <p>The Council of Europe has done very little in regard to indigenous rights. It is believed that the integration of Europe will cause the Council's organs to begin to deal with questions of indigenous rights. The main European events have been Spain's partial legal and political recognition of its distinct regions , the European Community's sponsorship of the preservation of minority languages, and it's Convention on National Minorities</p> <p>The governments of Denmark, Germany, and the German state of Schleswig-Holstein established the <a href="http://www.ecmi.de/">European Center for Minority Issues</a> in 1996. The ECMI deals with inter-ethnic issues in Western and Eastern Europe.</p> <h5>European Union</h5> <h5>Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe</h5> <h5><a href="http://www.oas.org/" name="The Organization of American States">THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES</a></h5> <p>The OAS is the oldest regional inter-governmental organization, established in 1890 as the International Union of American Republics. The OAS documentation system is explained in John W. Williams, <span class="title">Guide to International Legal Research</span>. Salem, NH: Butterworths Pub., 1990. A complete review of the use of all OAS documents is in Thomas H. Reynolds, "Highest Aspirations or Barbarous Acts...The Explosion in Human Rights Documentation: A Bibliographic Survey", 71 <span class="title">Law Library Journal</span> p. 1 (1978). Also consult the following: Thomas L. Welch, "The Human Rights Agencies of the Organization of American States and Their Documemtation", 19 <span class="title">Documents To The People</span> pp.30-38 (March 1991); and, Steven C. Perkins, "Latin American Human Rights Research 1980-1989: A Guide to Sources and a Bibliography", 19 <span class="title">Denver J. Int'L Law &amp; Policy</span> pp. 163-267 (Fall 1990). A complete collection of OAS documents would consist of A) the OAS Sales Publications; B) the OAS Official Records; and C) the OAS Technical Reports.</p> <p>The OAS SALES PUBLICATIONS consist of selected documents from all categories of OAS publications and documents. The Sales Catalogue can be obtained from this address:</p> <address>General Secretariat Organization of American States Department of Public Information Washington, DC 20006</address> . <p>The most comprehensive guide to the OAS Human Rights mechanisms is Thomas Buergenthal and Robert E. Norris, <span class="title">Human Rights: The Inter-American System</span>, Ocean Pub., Dobbs Ferry, NY, a five binder looseleaf service which gives a detailed history of the <a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/pg17-25.htm">American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man</a> and the <a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/pg25-52.htm">American Convention on Human Rights</a>, and traces the evolution of the <a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/hrights.htm">Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</a>, (see, also, http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/commissn.htm"&gt;University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) and the case law of the <a href="http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html">Inter-American Court of Human Rights</a>.</p> <p>The INTER-AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE publishes several periodicals which are invaluable for Indian studies in the Americas. These are <span class="title">America Indigena</span>; <span class="title">Boletin Indigenista</span>; and the <span class="title">Anuario-Indigenista</span>. There is a Indice Analytica for all three from 1940-1980 and separate Indice General for each covering the same time period. It has issued a Report on the Activities as OEASer.H- since 1961. It issues collections of national laws on Indians for the OAS countries. For information on its publications and activities write:</p> <address>Inter-American Indian Institute/Instituto Indigenista Interamericano<br> Avda. Insurgentes Sur No. 1690<br> Colonia Florida Delegacion Alvaro Obregon<br> Mexico City D.F.<br> 1030 Mexico</address> <p>Beginning with 1994-1995, the Annual Report of the Secretary General of the OAS is available online at this URL:<a href="http://www.oas.org/EN/PINFO/DOCS/AR96-97/indic97e.htm">"http://www.oas.org/EN/PINFO/DOCS/AR96-97/indic97e.htm"</a></p> <h5>African Union</h5> <p>Replacing the Organization of African Union is the <a href="http://www.africa-union.org/">African Union</a>.It sponsors the <a href="http://www.achpr.org/">African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights</a> and the future <a>African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights</a>. Reports of the sessions of the African Commission are available at the web site above.</p> <h5>Association of South East Asian Nations</h5> <h4><a name="Non-Governmental Organizations">Non-Governmental Organizations:</a></h4> <p>The following NGOs are active in the field of indigenous peoples rights. Most of them publish periodicals and some publish book series which deal with these issues. Those organizations marked with an asterix * have had observer status at the UN. The NGO system of the UN has been changed in regard to NGOs accredited to the ECOSOC. This site, <a href="http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/ngo-rev/">NGOs at the United nations</a> has an explanation of the changes. A list of <a href="http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/ngo-rev/status.html">NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC</a> is available at the site. The following INTERNET site has links to many of the NGOs throughout the world: <a href="http://www.ngo.org/">http://www.ngo.org/</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a> International Secretariat 1 Easton St. London WC1X 8DJ England, UK</p> <p><a href="http://www.cs.org/">Cultural Survival</a> 53A Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138</p> <p>Four Directions Council * Seattle, Washington</p> <p><a href="http://gcc.ca/">Grand Council of the Cree(of Quebec)</a> *</p> <p><a href="http://www.indianlaw.org/TEXTONLY.HTM">Indian Law Resource Center</a> * 508 Stuart Street Helena, MT 59601 and, 601 E Street, SE Washington, DC 20003</p> <p>Indigenous World Association * 275 Grand View Ave., No. 103 San Francisco, CA 94114</p> <p><a href="http://www.treatycouncil.org/">International Indian Treaty Council</a> * 2390 Mission St. Suite 310, San Francisco, CA 94110, tel. (415) 641-4480 , fax (415) 641-1298. The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples working for the Sovereignty and Self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.</p> <p><a href="http://www.pip.dknet.dk/%7Epip1917/index.htm">International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs</a> Fiolstraede 10 DK-1171 Copenhagen K Denmark</p> <p><a href="http://www.inusiaat.com/">Inuit Circumpolar Conference</a> * 650 32nd Ave. E North Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7L 1S1</p> <p><a href="http://www.iwa.org/mrg.htm">Minority Rights Group</a> 379 Brixton Road London SW9 7DE United Kingdom</p> <p>National Aboriginal and Islanders Legal Services * Secretariat of Australia. P.O. Box 143 Chippendal NSW 2008 Australia</p> <p>National Indian Youth Council *</p> <p><a href="http://www.nativeweb.org/saiic/">South and Meso American Indian Information Center</a> P.O. Box 28703 Oakland, CA 94602</p> <p><a href="http://www.survival-international.org/">Survival International</a> 310 Edgeware Rd. London W2 1DY England, UK</p> <p><a href="http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/wcip.html">World Council of Indigenous Peoples</a> * Suite C-182, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4 Canada. The WCIP sponsors an Pacific Asian Council of Indigenous Peoples. It also sponsored the <a href="http://www.puebloindio.org/cisa.htm">Indian Council of South America(CISA)</a>* which now has separate accreditation by UNESCO. The Nordic Sami Council is also part of the WCIP. Sanders, Douglas E. <a href="http://www.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/International/wcipinfo.txt">The formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples</a> Copenhagen : IWGIA, 1977. IWGIA document no. 29. World Council of Indigenous Peoples. General Assembly (2nd : 1977 : Kiruna, Sweden) Al'Goal'Bmugiid Mailmiraddi, nub'bi oai'vicoak'kin = Varldsradet for Urbefolkningar, andra generalforsamlingen = World Council of Indigenous Peoples, second general assembly : 24-27, VIII, 1977. Helsinki [Finland] : Nordic Sami Council, 1978.</p> <h3><a name="Specific Geographic Areas">II. SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS</a></h3> <h4><a name="Africa" id="Africa">AFRICA</a></h4> <p><span class="title">Africa : human rights directory &amp; bibliography</span> edited by Laurie S. Wiseberg &amp; Laura Reiner. Cambridge, MA. : Human Rights Internet, c1989.</p> <p><span class="title">The International law of human rights in Africa : basic documents and annotated bibliography</span>. Compiled by M. Hamalengwa, C. Flinterman, E.V.O. Dankwa. Dordrecht ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, 1988.</p> <p>Welch, Claude E. and Robert I. Meltzer. <span class="title">Human Rights and Development in Africa: tradition, conflict and leadership</span>. Albany, New York: State Univ. of New York, 1984).</p> <p><span class="title">New perspectives and conceptions of international law : an Afro-European dialogue</span>. Edited by K. Ginther and W. Benedek. Wien ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1983.</p> <p>Kannyo, Edward. <span class="title">Human rights in Africa : problems and prospects : a report prepared for the International League for Human Rights</span>. New York : The League, 1980.</p> <p>Mertens, Alice. <span class="title">South West Africa and its indigenous peoples</span>. With an introduction by Stuart Cloete. London : Collins; New York : Taplinger, 1966, 1967.</p> <p>Cunningham, James Frederick. <span class="title">Uganda and its peoples; on the protectorate of Uganda, especially the anthropology and ethnology of its indigenous races</span>. London, Hutchinson &amp; Co., 1905. New York, Negro Universities Press [1969].</p> <h4><a name="The Americas">THE AMERICAS:</a></h4> <p>Davis, Shelton H. <span class="title">Land rights and indigenous peoples : the role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</span>. Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival, c1988. Cultural survival report ; 29.</p> <h5><a name="North America">NORTH AMERICA:</a></h5> <p>Wutzke, Jeffrey, "Comment: Dependent Independence: Application of the Nunavut Model to Native Hawaiian Sovereignty ans Self-Determination Claims", 22 <span class="title">American Indian Law Review</span> pp.509-566 (1998).</p> <p>Suagee, Dean B., "Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Will the United States Rise to the Occcasion?" 22 <span class="title">American Indian Law Review</span> pp.365-390 (1998).</p> <p>Churchill, Ward. <span class="title">Indians are us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America</span>. Common Courage Press, (1994).</p> <p>Bankes, Nigel. <span class="title">Resource-leasing options and the settlement of aboriginal claims</span>. Ottawa, Ont. : Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, c1983.</p> <p>Barsh, Russell, "Indigenous North America and Contemporary International Law", 62 <span class="title">Oregon Law Review</span> 73 (1983).</p> <p>Dworaczek, Marian. <span class="title">Human rights legislation in Canada : a bibliography</span>. Ontario Ministry of Labour. Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, [1983].</p> <h5><a name="South America">SOUTH AMERICA:</a></h5> <p><span class="title">Human rights in Latin America, 1964-1980 : a selective annotated bibliography</span>. Compiled and edited by the Hispanic Division. Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983.</p> <p><span class="title">Politica del gobierno nacional para la protecciýÿn y desarollo de los indigenas y la conservaciýÿn ecologica de la cuenca Amazonica. English. Policy of the national government in defense of the rights of indigenous peoples and the ecological conservation of the Amazon Basin Republic of Colombia</span>. [Bogota, Colombia] : Indigenous Affairs Ministry of Government, [1990].</p> <p><span class="title">Hidreletricas do Xingu e os povos indigenas. English. Hydroelectric dams on Brazil's Xingu River and indigenous peoples</span>. Editors, Leinad Ayer de O. Santos, Lucia M.M. de Andrade ; translator, Robin Wright. Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival ; Sao Paulo : Pro-Indian Commission of Sao Paulo, 1990. Cultural survival report ; 30.</p> <p>Fruhling, Hugo. <span class="title">Organizaciones de derechos humanos de America del Sur</span>. Hugo Fruhling, Gloria Alberti, Felipe Portales. San Jose, Costa Rica : Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, [1989].</p> <p>Bunyard, Peter. <span class="title">The Colombian Amazon : policies for the protection of its indigenous peoples and their environment</span>. Cornwall, U.K. : Ecological Press, 1989.</p> <p>Clay, Jason W. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples and tropical forests : models of land use and management from Latin America</span>. Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival, c1988. Cultural survival report ; 27.</p> <p><span class="title">Projects with the indigenous peoples of Paraguay : past and future</span>. [New York, N.Y.?] : Survival International, [1980]. Survival International document ; 8.</p> <p>Migliazza, Ernest C. <span class="title">The integration of the indigenous peoples of the territory of Roraima, Brazil</span>. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1978. IWGIA document ; 32.</p> <h4><a name="Asia" id="Asia">ASIA:</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.asean.or.id/">ASEAN</a> is the regional organization for South East Asia. At this time, a regional human rights regime has not been developed. However, the ASEAN Human Rights Working Group has been established. First proposed in 1993, it came into existance in 1996 and was a participant in the 1997 ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. The <a href="http://www.cceia.org/dialvols.htm"><span class="title">Human Rights Dialogue</span></a> from the Human Rights Initiative of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs deals with Asian human rights. Most Asian states, other than Japan, do not recognize any claims of indigenous peoples.</p> <p>Books:</p> <p>Rupesinghe, Kumar. <span class="title">Ethnic conflict and human rights in Sri Lanka : an annotated bibliography</span>. Kumar Rupesinghe &amp; Berth Verstappen. London ; New York : Hans Zell ; Oslo : Published for the International Peace Research Institute, 1989.</p> <p>Tay, Alice Erh-Soon. <span class="title">Human rights for Australia : survey of literature and developments, and a select and annotated bibliography of recent literature in Australia and abroad</span>. Alice Erh-Soon Tay. Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1986.</p> <p><span class="title">Asian perspectives on human rights</span>. Edited by Claude E. Welch, Jr., and Virginia A. Leary. Boulder : Westview Press, 1990.</p> <p><span class="title">Quest for international understanding : essays in honour of M.S. Hoda</span>. Editor, Raghuraj Gupta. 1st ed. Lucknow : Apala Pub. Cooperative Society, 1989.</p> <p><span class="title">Refuge denied : problems in the protection of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Thailand and the admission of Indochinese refugees into the United States</span>. New York, N.Y. : Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c1989.</p> <p>Santoli, Al. <span class="title">Forced back and forgotten : the human rights of Laotian asylum seekers in Thailand</span>. New York, N. Y. : Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c1989.</p> <p><span class="title">Cross-cultural aspects of human rights : Asia</span>. Linda L. Lum, conference organizer and editor of proceedings. [Washington, D.C.] : Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Dept. of State, 1988.</p> <p>Espiritu, Caesar. <span class="title">Law and human rights in the development of ASEAN : with special reference to the Philippines</span>. Singapore : Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 1986.</p> <p><span class="title">Access to justice : human rights struggles in South East Asia</span>. Edited for Human Rights Internet by Harry M. Scoble and Laurie S. Wiseberg. London : Zed Books, c1985.</p> <p><span class="title">Human rights in East Asia : a cultural perspective</span>. Edited by James C. Hsiung. New York : Paragon House Publishers, c1985.</p> <p><span class="title">Human rights activism in Asia : some perspectives, problems and approaches</span>. Asian Coalition of Human Rights Organizations. New York : Council on International and Public Affairs, 1984.</p> <p><span class="title">Rural development and human rights in South Asia : report of a seminar held in Lucknow, India, 4-9 December 1982</span>. [organized by the] International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Institute. Lucknow, India : International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland [and] Human Rights Institute, c1984.</p> <p>Shuttleworth, Charles. <span class="title">Malaysia's green and timeless world : an account of the flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples of the forests of Malaysia</span>. Kuala Lumpur : Heinemann Asia, 1981.</p> <p>Razon, Felix. <span class="title">The oppression of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines</span>. Felix Razon, Richard Hensman. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1976. IWGIA document ; 25.</p> <p>Articles:</p> <p>Kingsbury, B. "'Indigenous Peoples' in International Law: A Constuctivist Approach to the Asian Controversy", 92 <span class="title">American Journal of International Law</span> pp.414-457 (1998).</p> <h4><a name="Australia" id="Australia">AUSTRALIA:</a></h4> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal customary law : marriage, children and the distribution of property</span>. The Law Reform Commission. Sydney : The Commission, 1982. Discussion paper (Australia. Law Reform Commission) ; no. 18.</p> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal land rights law in the Northern Territory</span> General editor, Garth Nettheim. Chippendale, NSW, Australia : Alternative Pub. Co-operative, 1989-</p> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal landowners : contemporary issues in the determination of traditional aboriginal land ownership</span>. L.R. Hiatt, editor. [Sydney] : University of Sydney, 1984.</p> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal peoples and treaties : seminar report</span>. Edited by Juanita Ferguson. Hunters Hill, NSW : Conventions Coverage International, 1989.</p> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal reserves by-laws and human rights</span>. Human Rights Commission. Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Serv., 1983. Occasional paper (Human Rights Commission (Australia)) ; no. 5.</p> <p><span class="title">Aboriginal sites, rights, and resource development</span>. Edited by Ronald M. Berndt. Perth : Published for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia by University of Western Australia Press, 1982.</p> <p><span class="title">Aborigines and the law : essays in memory of Elizabeth Eggleston</span>. Edited by Peter Hanks and Bryan Keon-Cohen. Sydney ; Boston : Allen &amp; Unwin, 1984.</p> <p>Australia. Law Reform Commission. <span class="title">The recognition of Aboriginal customary laws</span>. Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1986. Report (Australia. Law Reform Commission) ; no. 31.</p> <p>Bell, Diane. <span class="title">Law, the old and the new : Aboriginal women in Central Australia speak out</span>. Diane Bell and Pam Ditton. Rev. ed. Canberra, A.C.T. : Published for Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service by Ab</p> <p>Bird, Greta. <span class="title">The process of law in Australia : intercultural perspectives</span>. Greta Bird ; with a foreword by R.J.L. Hawke. Sydney : Butterworths, 1988.</p> <p>Broome, Richard. <span class="title">Aboriginal Australians : black response to white dominance, 1788-1980</span>. Sydney ; Boston : Allen &amp; Unwin, 1982.</p> <p>Burger, Julian. <span class="title">Aborigines today : land and justice</span>. London : Anti-Slavery Society, c1988. Indigenous peoples and development series ; report no. 1988-5.</p> <p>Butlin, N. G. <span class="title">Our original aggression : Aboriginal populations of southeastern Australia, 1788-1850</span>. Sydney ; Boston : G. Allen &amp; Unwin, 1983.</p> <p>Cole, Keith. <span class="title">Gronote Eylandt Aborigines and mining : a study in cross-cultural relationships</span>. [Chatswood, N.S.W.] : Rigby, 1988.</p> <p>Cousins, David. <span class="title">Aboriginals and the mining industry : case studies of the Australian experience</span>. David Cousins, John Nieuwenhuysen. [Melbourne] : Committee for Economic Development of Australia ; Sydney ; Boston : G. Allen &amp; Unwin, 1984.</p> <p>Cowlishaw, Gillian. <span class="title">Black, white, or brindle : race in rural Australia</span>. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1988.</p> <p>Crawford, J. R. <span class="title">Aboriginal customary law : child custody, fostering and adoption</span>. J. R. Crawford, F. M. Hewarth. Sydney : Australian Law Reform Commission, 1982.</p> <p>English, P.B. <span class="title">Land rights and birthrights (the great Australian hoax) : an examination of the rights to ownership of former aboriginal land in Australia</span>. Bullsbrook, W.A., Australia : Veritas Pub. Co. ; Seal Beach, CA, United States of America : Concord Books, 1985.</p> <p>Erckenbrecht, C. <span class="title">Land und Landrecht der australischen Aborigines</span>. Bonn : Holos, 1988.</p> <p>Brennen, F. et.al. <span class="title">Finding common ground : an assessment of the bases of aboriginal land rights</span>. Rev. ed., 2nd ed. Blackburn, Vic. : Collins Dove, 1986.</p> <p>Tonkinson, R. and Howard, M. <span class="title">Going it alone? : prospects for Aboriginal autonomy : essays in honour of Ronald and Catherine Berndt</span>. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1990.</p> <p>Goldie, T. <span class="title">Fear and temptation : the image of the indigene in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand literatures</span>. Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1989.</p> <p>Gumbert, M. <span class="title">Neither justice nor reason : a legal and anthropological analysis of aboriginal land rights</span>. St Lucia, Qld., Australia ; New York : University of Queensland Press, 1984.</p> <p>Hennessy, P. K. <span class="title">Aboriginal customary law : traditional and modern distributions of property</span>. Sydney : Australian Law Reform Commission, 1982.</p> <p>Nettheim, G. <span class="title">Human rights for Aboriginal people in the 1980s</span>. Sydney : Legal Books, 1983.</p> <p>Dyck, N. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples and the nation-state : 'fourth world' politics in Canada, Australia, and Norway</span>. St. John's, Nfld., Canada : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1985.</p> <p>Hocking, B. <span class="title">International law and aboriginal human rights</span>. Sydney : Law Book Co., 1988.</p> <p>Hazelhurst, K.M. <span class="title">Ivory scales : black Australia and the law</span>. Kensington, NSW : NSWU Press in association with the Australian Institute of Criminology, c1987.</p> <p>Kirk, Mildred. <span class="title">A change of ownership : aboriginal land rights</span>. Milton, Qld. : Jacaranda Press, 1986.</p> <p>Baker, K. <span class="title">The Land rights debate : selected documents</span>. [Melbourne, Vic.] : Institute of Public Affairs, 1985.</p> <p><span class="title">Land rights now : the Aboriginal fight for land in Australia</span>. Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, c1985. IWGIA document no. 54.</p> <p>Libby, Ronald T. <span class="title">Hawke's law : the politics of mining and aboriginal land rights in Australia</span>. Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1989.</p> <p>Loos, Noel. <span class="title">Invasion and resistance : Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier, 1861-1897</span>. Canberra, Australia ; Miami, Fla., USA : Australian National University Press, 1982.</p> <p>Maddock, Kenneth. <span class="title">Your land is our land : Aboriginal land rights</span>. Ringwood, Vic. ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1983.</p> <p>McCorquodale, J. <span class="title">Aborigines and the law : a digest</span>. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1987.</p> <p>McGill, S. and Grough, G.J. <span class="title">Indigenous resource rights and mining companies in North America and Australia</span>. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.</p> <p>Morse, B.W. <span class="title">Aboriginal self-government in Australia and Canada</span>. Kingston, Ont. : Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, c1984.</p> <p>Mulvaney, D.J. <span class="title">Encounters in place : outsiders and aboriginal Australians, 1606-1985</span>. St. Lucia, Qld., Aust. : University of Queensland Press, 1989.</p> <p>Neate, G. <span class="title">Legal aspects of defence operations on aboriginal land in the Northern Territory</span>. Canberra : Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, [1987].</p> <p>Nettheim, G. <span class="title">Indigenous rights, human rights and Australia.</span> London : Australian Studies Centre, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, [1987].</p> <p>Palmer, I. <span class="title">Buying back the land : organisational struggle and the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission</span>. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1988.</p> <p>Reynolds, H. <span class="title">Aboriginal land rights in colonial Australia</span>. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988.</p> <p>Reynolds, H. <span class="title">Frontier : Aborigines, settlers, and land</span>. Sydney ; Boston : Allen &amp; Unwin, 1987.</p> <p>Reynolds, H. <span class="title">The law of the land</span>. Ringwood, Vic., Australia : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y. : Viking Penguin, 1987.</p> <p>Tatz, C.M. <span class="title">Aborigines &amp; uranium and other essays</span>. Richmond, Vic. : Heinemann Educational Australia, 1982.</p> <p>Toohey, J. <span class="title">Seven years on : report by Mr. Justice Toohey to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and related matters</span>. Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1984.</p> <p>Trigger, D.S. <span class="title">'Whitefella comin' : Aboriginal responses to colonialism in northern Australia</span>. [Victoria], Australia ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1992.</p> <p>Wilkie, M. <span class="title">Aboriginal land rights in N.S.W</span>. Chippendale, N.S.W., Australia : Alternative Pub. Co-operative, in association with Black Books, 1985.</p> <p>Wright, J. <span class="title">We call for a treaty</span>. Sydney : Collins Fontana, 1985.</p> <p>Yarwood, A.T. and Knowling, M.J. <span class="title">Race relations in Australia : a history</span>. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Methuen Australia, 1982.</p> <p>Cornell, J. and Howitt, R. <span class="title">Mining and indigenous peoples in Australia</span>. Sydney : University Press, 1991.</p> <p>Trigger, D.S. <span class="title">'Whitefella comin' : colonialism, resistance, and consent in north Australia</span>. [Victoria], Australia ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1991.</p> <h4>New Zealand:</h4> <p>Bawden, P. <span class="title">The years before Waitangi : a story of early Maori European contact in New Zealand</span>. [Auckland, N.Z.] : Distributed by Benton Press, c1987.</p> <p>Brownlie, I., and Brookfield, F.M. <span class="title">Treaties and indigenous peoples</span>. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.</p> <p>McHugh, P.G. <span class="title">Maori land laws of New Zealand : two essays</span>. Saskatoon : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1983. Studies in aboriginal rights no. 7.</p> <p>McHugh, P.G. <span class="title">The Maori Magna Carta : New Zealand law and the Treaty of Waitangi</span>. Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.</p> <p>McKenzie, D.F. <span class="title">Oral culture, literacy &amp; print in early New Zealand : the Treaty of Waitangi</span>. Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press with the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1985.</p> <p>Orange, C. <span class="title">The Treaty of Waitangi</span>. Wellington ; Winchester, Mass., USA : Allen &amp; Unwin : Port Nicolson Press, with assistance from the Historical Publications Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1987 (1988 printing).</p> <p><span class="title">Remember Waitangi</span>. [Otara, N.Z. : Waitanga Action Committee, 1982?].</p> <p>Sharp, A. <span class="title">Justice and the Maori : Maori claims in New Zealand political argument in the 1980's</span>. Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.</p> <p>Kawhuru, I.H. <span class="title">Waitangi : Maori and Pakeha perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi</span>. Auckland ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.</p> <p>Pearson, D. <span class="title">A dream deferred : the origins of ethnic conflict in New Zealand</span>. Wellington ; Boston : Allen &amp; Unwin : Port Nicholson Press, 1990.</p> <h4><a name="Europe" id="Europe">EUROPE:</a></h4> <p><span class="title">Self determination and indigenous peoples ; Sami rights and northern perspectives compiled and edited from the Seminar Self-determination and Indigenous Peoples</span>. Copenhagen : IWGIA, 1987. IWGIA document ; 58.</p> <p><span class="title">Indigenous peoples of the Soviet North</span>. Copenhagen : IWGIA, [1990]. IWGIA Document; 67: International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 9th, Chicago, 1973.</p> <h3><a name="Specific Topics">SPECIFIC TOPICS:</a></h3> <h4><a name="Apartheid" id="Apartheid">APARTHEID</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/11.htm">International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of <em>Apartheid</em></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/12.htm">International Convention against <em>Apartheid</em> in Sports</a></p> <p><span class="title">Apartheid medicine : health and human rights in South Africa</span>. Washington, D. C. : American Association for the Advancement of Science, c1990.</p> <p>Ajala, A., Akinsanya, A., and Nwoke, C. <span class="title">Strategies for Dismantling Apartheid : proceedings of an international conference in Lagos, Nigeria, November 7-9, 1988</span>. Lagos, Nigeria : National Committee Against Apartheid, 1990.</p> <p><span class="title">Banking on apartheid : the financial sanctions report : statement by the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, report of the Inter-Governmental Group of Officials</span>. London : Commonwealth Secretariat in association with J. Currey, 1989.</p> <p>United nations. General Assembly. Special Committee against Apartheid. <span class="title">Twenty-five years of commitment to the elimination of apartheid in South Africa</span>. New York : United Nations, 1988.</p> <p>Africa Fund (New Delhi, India). Africa Fund Summit (1987 : New Delhi, India). <span class="title">Africa Fund Summit : final documents.</span> [New Delhi : s.n., 1987?].</p> <p>Reddy, E. S. <span class="title">Apartheid : the United Nations and the international community : a collection of speeches and papers</span>. New Delhi : Vikas Pub. House, c1986.</p> <p><span class="title">Teaching, education, culture and information as means of eliminating racial discrimination : implementation of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Article 7</span>. New York : United Nations, 1985. UN DOC CERD3</p> <p>Asian Regional Conference for Action against Apartheid (1982 : Manila, Philippines). <span class="title">Manila declaration for action against apartheid (26 May, 1982) : adopted by the Asian Regional Conference for Action against Apartheid held in Manila, Republic of the Philippines, from 24 to 26 May 1982</span>. [New York] : United Nations Centre against Apartheid, 1982.</p> <p>Stober, H. <span class="title">Die Rolle der Organisation der Afrikanischen Einheit (OAU) im Kampf gegen Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Apartheid im Suden Afrikas bis 1978</span>. Potsdam-Babelsburg : Akademie fur Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft der DDR, Informationszentrum Staat und Recht, 1981.</p> <p>Brehme, G. and Kramer, H. <span class="title">Apartheid, mass violation of human rights</span>. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1980.</p> <p><span class="title">Declaration on Fundamental Principles concerning the Contribution to the Mass Media to Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, to the Promotion of Human Rights and to Countering Racialism, Apartheid and Incitement to War, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference at its twentieth session, Paris, 22 November 1978</span>. UNESCO's Standard-Setting Instruments, IV.C. (1994). Paris : Unesco, 1979.</p> <p>Booysen, H. <span class="title">Convention on the crime of apartheid, human rights and self-determination</span>. [Pretoria : Foreign Affairs Association], 1978.</p> <p>Dugard, J. <span class="title">Apartheid and human rights in South Africa : techniques of implementation</span>. [Wash.,D.C.] : American Society of International Law, 1974. International NGO Conference Against Apartheid and Colonialism in Africa (1974 : Geneva) [Proceedings]. Geneva : 1974.</p> <p>Taubenfeld, R.F. <span class="title">The U. N. and human rights in Southern Africa : the evolution of the substantive law : freedom from apartheid as a preferred freedom in the hierarchy of charter protected human rights</span>. [Wash. D.C.] : American Society for International Law, 1974.</p> <p>United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa. <span class="title">Apartheid in South Africa III : extracts from the report of the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa (20th session of the General Assembly)</span>. New York : United Nations, 1966.</p> <p>United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on Apartheid. <span class="title">Apartheid in South Africa II, extracts from the report of the Special Committee ... (19th session of the General Assembly)</span>. New York, United Nations [1965].</p> <p>United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa. <span class="title">Apartheid in South Africa</span>. New York, United Nations [1963-65].</p> <h4><a name="Cultural" id="Cultural">CULTURAL RESOURCES</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm">International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/n_decl.htm">Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/27.htm">Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally</a></p> <h4><a name="Education" id="Education">EDUCATION</a></h4> <p>Buergenthal, T. and Torney, J.V. <span class="title">International human rights and international education</span>. Washington : U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1976.</p> <p>Drinan, R. <span class="title">The Right to be educated; studies to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the universal declaration of human rights, December 10, 1948</span>. Washington: Corpus Books [1968].</p> <h4><a name="Genocide" id="Genocide">GENOCIDE</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm">Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_limit.htm">Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_extrad.htm">Principles of international co-operation in the detection, arrest, extradition and punishment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity</a></p> <p>Chalk, F., Jonasson, K. <span class="title">The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies</span>. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).</p> <p>Kuper, L. <span class="title">The prevention of genocide</span>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.</p> <p>Harff, B. <span class="title">Genocide and human rights : international legal and political issues</span>. Denver, Colo. : Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, c1984.</p> <p>Porter, J.N. <span class="title">Genocide and human rights : a global anthology</span>. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1982.</p> <p>Kuper, L. <span class="title">South Africa : human rights and genocide</span>. Kuper, H. <span class="title">Biography as Interpretation</span> [Bloomington, Ind.] : African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1981.</p> <p>Parsegian, V.L. <span class="title">Human rights and genocide, 1975: the hope, the reality, and still the hope; a status report</span>. New York, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, c 1975.</p> <p><span class="title">Genocide in the southern Sudan : human rights violated, Arabs vs. Africans</span>. [Milan] : The Sudan Informazioni News Agency, [1964?].</p> <p><span class="title">Dichiarazione universale dei diritti dell'uomo : convenzione per la proscrizione del genocidio con uno studio introduttivo del Giuseppe Capograssi sulla Dichiarazione universale del diritto dell'uomo e il... 2. ed., riv. e aggiornata</span>. Padova : Cedam, 1957.</p> <p>Kaelas, A. <span class="title">Human rights and genocide in the Baltic States : [a statement submitted to the delegations to the United Nations General Assembly, September 1950]</span>. Stockholm : Estonian Information Centre, 1950.</p> <h4><a name="Humanitarian Intervention">HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION</a></h4> <p>Teson, F.R. <span class="title">Humanitarian intervention : an inquiry into law and morality,</span>. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Transnational Publishers, c1988.</p> <p>Harff-Gurr, B. <span class="title">Humanitarian intervention as a remedy for genocide : a fresh look at an old concept</span>. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981.</p> <h4><a name="Indigenous Peoples">INDIGENOUS PEOPLES</a></h4> <p>Books:</p> <p>Cohen, C.P. ed. <span class="title">Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples</span>. Transnational Publishers (expected 1998).</p> <p>Daes, E-I.A. <span class="title">Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples</span>. New York: United Nations (1997) Sales Pub. E.97.XIV.3.</p> <p>Perry, R.J. <span class="title">From Time Immemorial: indigenous peoples and state systems</span>. Austin: U of Texas Press (1996).</p> <p>Anaya, S.J. <span class="title">Indigenous Peoples in International Law</span>. New York: Oxford University Press (1996).</p> <p>Heinz, W.S. <span class="title">Indigenous populations, ethnic minorities and human rights</span>. Berlin : Quorum Verlag, c1988.</p> <p>Burger, J. <span class="title">Report from the frontier : the state of the world's indigenous peoples</span>. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1987.</p> <p><span class="title">Indigenous peoples : a global quest for justice : a report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues</span>. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1987.</p> <p>Martinez-Cobo, J.R. <span class="title">Study of the Problem of Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations</span>. New York: United Nations (1987) E/CN.4/Sub.2/1986/7/4.</p> <p>Sevilla-Casas, E. <span class="title">Western expansion and indigenous peoples: the heritage of Las Casas</span>. The Hague, Mouton; Chicago, distributed in the USA by Aldine, 1977.</p> <p>Farmer, R.N. <span class="title">Benevolent Agression: the necessary impact of advanced nations on indigenous peoples</span>. New York: McKay (1972).</p> <p>International Labour Office. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples, living and working conditions of aboriginal populations in independent countries</span>. Geneva, ILO, 1953.</p> <p>Articles:</p> <p>Torres, R. "The Rights of Indigenous Populations: The Emerging International Norm", 16 <span class="title">Yale J. Int'l L.</span> 127 (1991).</p> <p>Williams, R.A., Jr. "Encounters on the Frontiers of International Human Rights Law: Redefining the Terms of Indigenous Peoples' Survival in the World", 1990 <span class="title">Duke L.J.</span> p.660 (1990).</p> <p>Clinton, R.N. "The Rights of Indigenous Peoples As Collective Group Rights", 32 <span class="title">Ariz. L.Rev.</span> 739 (1990).</p> <p>Hannum, H. "New Developments in Indigenous Rights", 28 <span class="title">Va J Int'l L.</span> 585 (1988).</p> <p>Barsh, R. "Indigenous Peoples: An Emerging Object of International Law", 80 <span class="title">Am J. Int'l L.</span> 369 (1986).</p> <p>Daes, Erica-Irene A. "Native Peoples Rights", 27 <span class="title">Cahiers de Droit</span> 123 (1986).</p> <p>Sanders, "The Re-emergence of Indigenous Questions in International Law", 1983 <span class="title">Canadian Human Rights Y.B.</span> 3 (1983).</p> <h4><a name="Minority Rights">MINORITY RIGHTS:</a></h4> <p>Treaties:</p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_minori.htm">Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities</a></p> <p>Books:</p> <p>Thornberry, P. <span class="title">Minorities and human rights law</span>. London : Minority Rights Group, 1991.</p> <p>Heinz, W.S. <span class="title">Indigenous populations, ethnic minorities and human rights</span>. Berlin : Quorum Verlag, c1988.</p> <p>Stanek, E. <span class="title">Minorities, aliens, and refugees : a selected bibliography for the study of international protection of human rights of special groups</span>. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1987].</p> <p>Stanek, E. <span class="title">Minorities, aliens, and refugees : a selected bibliography for the study of international protection of human rights of special groups</span>. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1987].</p> <p>International Seminar on Mass Media and the Minorities (1986 : Bangkok, Thailand). <span class="title">Mass media and the minorities : papers presented at an International Seminar organized by the Division of Human Rights and Peace, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, 2-6 September 1985</span>. Bangkok : Unesco Regional Office, 1986.</p> <p>Whithurst, B. <span class="title">Minorities, a question of human rights?</span> 1st ed. Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, c1984.</p> <p>Vishinski, B. <span class="title">The Ohrid Seminar on Minorities : United Nations Seminar on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of National, Ethnic, and Other Minorities, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, 25 June-8 July 1974</span>. Skopje : Macedonian Review Editions, 1977.</p> <p>Claude, R.P. <span class="title">Comparative Human Rights</span>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.</p> <p>Poppe, E. <span class="title">Peace - the right of the citizen ; United Nations seminar on the promotion and protection of human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities, held in Ohrid (Yugoslavia) from 25 June to 8 July 1974</span>.</p> <p>Gotlieb, A. <span class="title">Human rights, federalism and minorities. Les droits de l'homme, le federalisme et les minorites</span>. [Essays by] Pierre Elliott Trudeau [and others]. [Toronto] Canadian Institute of International Affairs [1970].</p> <p>Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations. <span class="title">International protection of the human rights of minorities. A revised memorandum submitted to the Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, January 1950</span>. New York: United Nations [1950].</p> <p>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. <span class="title">An appeal to the world; a statement on the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America and an appeal to the United Nations for redress</span>. [New York: NAACP 1947.].</p> <p>Janowsky, O.I. <span class="title">Nationalities and National Minorities</span>. New York: Macmillan, 1945.</p> <p>Azcarate y Florez, Pablo de. <span class="title">League of Nations and National Minorities</span>. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1972. (Reprint. Originally printed: Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1945).</p> <p>Stone, J. <span class="title">International Guarantees of Minority Rights</span>. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.</p> <p>Mair, L.P. <span class="title">The Protection of Minorities</span>. London: Christophers, 1928.</p> <h4><a name="Natural Resources">NATURAL RESOURCES:</a></h4> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/c_natres.htm">General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, "Permanent sovereignty over natural resources"</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm">Declaration on the Right to Development</a></p> <p>Books:</p> <p>Brush, S.B. and Stabinsky, D. <span class="title">Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights</span>. Washington D.C.; Covelo, Calif.: Island Press (1996).</p> <p>Howitt, R, ed. <span class="title">Resources, Nations, and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Austral asia, Melanesia, and Southeast Asia</span>. Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press (1996).</p> <p>Posey, D.A. <span class="title">Beyond Intellectual Property: toward traditional resource rights for indigenous peoples and local communities</span>. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (1996).</p> <p>Colchester, M. <span class="title">Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation</span>. Geneva: U.N. Research Institute for Social Development (1994).</p> <p>Santos, L.A. de O., and de Andrade, L.M.M. <span class="title">Hidreletricas do Xingu e os povos indigenas</span>. English. Hydroelectric dams on Brazil's Xingu River and indigenous peoples ; translator, Robin Wright. Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival ; Sao Paulo : Pro-Indian Commission of Sao Paulo, 1990.</p> <p>Bunyard, P. <span class="title">The Colombian Amazon : policies for the protection of its indigenous peoples and their environment</span>. Cornwall, U.K. : Ecological Press, 1989.</p> <p>Clay, J.W. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples and tropical forests : models of land use and management from Latin America</span>. Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival, c1988.</p> <p>Beauclerk, J., Narby, J., and Townsend, J. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples : a fieldguide for development</span>. Oxford [England] : Oxfam, 1988.</p> <p>McGill, S. and Crough, G.J. <span class="title">Indigenous resource rights and mining companies in North America and Australia</span>. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.</p> <p>Articles:</p> <p>Gray, Stephen, "Vampires round the campfire: indigenous intellectual property rights and patent laws"., 22 <span class="title">Alternative Law Journal</span> p.60(5), (APRIL, 1997).</p> <p>Burton, Lloyd; Cocklin, Chris, "Water resource management and environmental policy reform in New Zealand: regionalism, allocation, and indigenous relations". 7 <span class="title">Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy</span>, pp.75-106 (WINTER, 1996).</p> <p>Smith, Fred L., Jr., "Sustainable development - a free-market perspective". 21 <span class="title">Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review</span> pp.297-308 (WINTER, 1994).</p> <p>Rubin, Steven M.; Fish, Stanwood C., "Biodiversity prospecting: using innovative contractual provisions to foster ethnobotanical knowledge, technology, and conservation". (Endangered Peoples: Indigenous Rights and the Environment), 5 <span class="title">Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy</span> pp.23-58, (WINTER, 1994)</p> <h4><a name="Religion" id="Religion">RELIGION</a></h4> <p>Odio Benito, Elizabeth. <span class="title">Elimination of all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief</span>. New York, N.Y. : United Nations, 1989. Series title: Human rights study series ; 2. U.N. Doc E CN.4ZSER.B2</p> <p>Little, D., Kelsay, J., and Sachedina, A.A. <span class="title">Human rights and the conflict of cultures : Western and Islamic perspectives on religious liberty</span>. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1988.</p> <p>Swidler, A. <span class="title">Human rights in religious traditions</span>. New York : Pilgrim Press, c1982.</p> <p>Fernandes, W. <span class="title">Caste and conversion movements in India : religion and human rights</span>. New Delhi : Indian Social Institute, 1981.</p> <h4><a name="Self Determination">SELF DETERMINATION</a></h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/c_coloni.htm">Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples</a></li> </ul> <p>Books:</p> <p>Dyck, Noel. <span class="title">Indigenous peoples and the nation-state : 'fourth world' politics in Canada, Australia, and Norway</span>. St. John's, Nfld., Canada : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1985.</p> <p>Articles:</p> <p>Corntassel, Jeff J.; Primeau, Tomas Hopkins, "'Indigenous sovereignty' and international law: revised strategies for pursuing 'self-determination.'", 17 <span class="title">Human Rights Quarterly</span> pp.343-365, (MAY, 1995).</p> <p>Morris, "In Support of the Right of Self-Determination for Indigenous Peoples under International Law", 29 <span class="title">Ger. Y.B. Int'l L.</span> p.277 (1986).</p> <p>Clinebell and Thompson, "Sovereignty and Self-Determination: The Rights of Native Americans under International Law", 27 <span class="title">Buffalo L. Rev.</span> p.669 (1978).</p> <hr width="100%"> <p class="pg">Footnotes:</p> <p><a name="note1" id="note1">note 1</a>. Copyright (c) 1992-2012, Steven C. Perkins. All rights reserved. This document was prepared for presentation at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. It may be reproduced for non-profit educational use if this notice appears on the reproduction.</p> <p><a name="note2" id="note2">note 2</a>. MLL, 1983, Univ. of Denver; JD, 1979; BA, 1976, Univ. of Cincinnati. <a href="http://stevencperkins.com/">http://stevencperkins.com/</a>.</p> <p><a name="note3" id="note3">note 3</a>. U.N. Doc. ECN.4Sub.21989L.46 at 2.</p> <p><a name="note4" id="note4">note 4</a>. For discussion of an earlier such conflict over Chap. XI, Art. 73(e) of the U.N. Charter see, G. Bennet, <span class="title">Aboriginal Rights in International Law</span>, p.13 (1978).</p> <p><a name="note5" id="note5">note 5</a>. See, Sanders, Douglas, <span class="title">The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations</span>, 11 Hum. Rights Q. p.405, at 428-429 (1989).</p> <p><a name="note6" id="note6">note 6</a>. See, Sanders, Douglas, <span class="title">The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations,</span>, 11 Hum. Rights Q. p.405, at 423-427 (1989).</p> <p><a name="note7" id="note7">note 7</a>. The Constitutional Role of the Waitangi Tribunal, <span class="title">New Zealand L. J.</span> 224(3) (July 1985).</p> <p><a name="note8" id="note8">note 8</a>. See also, Gibson, A.M., Philosophical, Legal, and Social Rationales for Appropriating the Tribal Estate, 1607 to 1980, 12 <span class="title">Am. Ind. L. Rev.</span> p.3 (1984).</p> <p><a name="note9" id="note9">note 9</a>. See, "On the Indians Lately Discovered", in <span class="title">De Indis et de Iure Belli Reflectiones</span>, (E. Nys ed., J. Bate trans) Classics of International Law (1917).</p> <p><a name="note10" id="note10">note 10</a>. de Las Casas, B. <span class="title">The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account</span>. Seville:(1552) : Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1992).</p> <div class="c7"><br></div> </body> </html>