Maori legal forum: update on international developments relating to indigenous peoples

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Charters, Clare
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Claire provides an update on where things are at for Indigenous peoples' rights under international law in two discrete areas: on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and the4 United Nationals Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She provides an historical overview of where indigenous peoples sit in the United Nations, then moves to the UNPFII and finally the Declaration.

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1. Introduction -- II. Where indigenous peoples sit in the United Nations System -- III. The UN permanent forum on Indigenous issues -- IV.  The Declaration -- a. History -- b. Significance -- c. Politics behind the Declaration's negotiation -- d. Articles of the declaration -- e. New Zealand, Australia and the United States objections -- f. Responses to the Government's position.

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Catalogue Number: 

341 CHAR - Filing Cabinet

Publisher: 

Clare Charters

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unknown

Date of Publication: 

July 2006

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8 pages, double sided, on yellow pages, 30 cm.

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Treaty Resource Centre
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