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‘We the peoples…’: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Author(s) -
Oldham Paul,
Frank Miriam Anne
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00569.x
Subject(s) - declaration , indigenous , human rights , negotiation , general assembly , political science , linguistic rights , international human rights law , indigenous rights , law , right to property , sociology , environmental ethics , ecology , philosophy , biology
This article reports on the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the 13th of September 2007 by the United Nations General Assembly. The article examines the final stages of the negotiation of the Declaration and briefly considers the role that anthropology might play in promoting this new human rights instrument.