Standard Setting Activities: evolution of standards concerning the rights of indigenous populations

Paper submitted to discuss the concerns of the British Columbia Indian Chiefs about the direction that State Governments are taking in regard to Indigenous peoples quest for self-determination according to…

The STL’ATL’IMX, people and the territory we are obliged to care for, address the WGIP about being distinguished as humans instead of being under the status of sub-humans. This statement…

Key issues addressed: protection of Maori interests, improved educational opportunities, increases opportunities for Maori people to achieve social and economic development, strengthened recognition of culture and language and increased Maori…

Occasional paper dealing with the Chittagong Hill Tracts people. Areas of discussion in this paper include, the nation of Chittagong, total Bengali invasion, oppression and genocide, the government of Hossain…

A faculty member of the University of Queensland wrote this report regarding the outbreak of a tapeworm in West Papua and its effects on the indigenous peoples of the region….

Memorandum from: International Relations Committee, Ralph Eluska, Chairman Subject: Hearing concerning the draft International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 11 october 1983

A statement in regards to invasion of ancestral land of the South Moluccas by Indonesian forces and the mistreatment of its people and land. Indigenous peoples are being chased out…

Paper addressing the issue of the indigenous people of Central America and the poor treatment they are receiving from the government. The governments are not recognizing the natives as a…

This paper begins with a statement of the problems in Nicaragua and lists those problems in four different sections. It goes on to give the demographics of the reserve territory…