Oversight Hearing on Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Thursday, June 9 2011 2:15PM
Dirksen Senate Office Building 628
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The hearing chaired by Senator Daniel Akaka explores the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as an international policy goal to which the United States is signatory, the current ways existing domestic policy achieves the UNDRIP goals, and additional domestic policy considerations to make the United States a world leader in indigenous rights and implementation of the UNDRIP. Hearing witnesses offering testimony include:
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