Author: Peter Keith Kulchyski
Publisher: Arp Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781894037761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An historical overview of aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada with suggestions on ways to transform current policies to better support and invigorate indigenous culters.
Author: Brendan Tobin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-08-27
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1317697537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its relationship with positive and natural law from the time of Plato up to the present. It examines its growing recognition in constitutional and international law and its dependence on and at times strained relationship with human rights law. The author analyzes the role of customary law in tribal, national and international governance of Indigenous peoples’ lands, resources and cultural heritage. He explores the challenges and opportunities for its recognition by courts and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including issues of proof of law and conflicts between customary practices and human rights. He throws light on the richness inherent in legal diversity and key principles of customary law and their influence in legal practice and on emerging notions of intercultural equity and justice. He concludes that Indigenous peoples’ rights to their customary legal regimes and states’ obligations to respect and recognize customary law, in order to secure their human rights, are principles of international customary law, and as such binding on all states. At a time when the self-determination, land, resources and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples are increasingly under threat, this accessible book presents the key issues for both legal and non-legal scholars, practitioners, students of human rights and environmental justice, and Indigenous peoples themselves.
Author: Patrick Thornberry
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1847795145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of the rights of indigenous peoples looks at the historical, cultural, and legal background to the position of indigenous peoples in different cultures, including America, Africa and Australia. It defines "indigenous peoples" and looks at their position in international law.
Author: Joyce Audry Green
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781552666838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a wealth of experience and blending critical theoretical frameworks and a close knowledge of domestic and international law on human rights, the authors in this collection show that settler states such as Canada persist in violating and failing to acknowledge Indigenous human rights.
Author: Jackie Hartley
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1895830567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors explain the provisions of the Declaration, and how it provides a framework for ensuring justice, dignity, and security for the world's Indigenous peoples, the development and adoption of the Declaration, and ways and means of implementing the Declaration within Canada and internationally. This book provides accessible information and guidance on the Declaration and how it might be used to advance human rights.
Author: Peter Kulchyski
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0887553354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and Aboriginal politicians, and participated in daily life. In Like the Sound of a Drum he looks as three northern communities -- Fort Simpson and Fort Good Hope in Denendeh and Pangnirtung in Nunavut -- and their strategies for maintaining their political and cultural independence. In the face of overwhelming odds, communities such as these have shown remarkable resources for creative resistance. In the process, they are changing the concept of democracy as it is practised in Canada.
Author: Elvira Pulitano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107022444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elvira Pulitano examines the relevance of international law in advancing indigenous peoples' struggles for self-determination and cultural flourishing.
Author: Aman Gupta
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9788182052055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Claire Charters
Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a culmination of a centuries-long struggle by indigenous peoples for justice. It is an important new addition to UN human rights instruments in that it promotes equality for the world's indigenous peoples and recognizes their collective rights."--Back cover.