Conversations about Indigenous Rights: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand

Aho, Linda Te

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0ins29.6277

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“…La difusión del constitucionalismo ambiental transnacional, y en particular la extensión de las protecciones de derechos humanos a la naturaleza, tiene también una relación estrecha (pero incómoda) con el creciente reconocimiento de los derechos en Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda, este proceso de presentación de reclamaciones ha llevado a veces a aplicar a la naturaleza modelos de persona, en un intento de reflejar el pluralismo jurídico y ontológico, a través de conceptos jurídicos occidentales que se aproximan al derecho indígena (véanse Kauffman, 2020;Milgin et al, 2020Milgin et al, , p. 1211Morris y Ruru, 2010;Poelina y Lim, 2020;Salmond, 2017, p. 299;Te Aho, 2010;Watts, 2013;véase también James, 2020, p. 2).…”

Section: Derecho Ambiental Y Constitucionalismo: ¿El Siguiente Nivel?unclassified

Cuando la ley se queda corta: constitucionalismo y “derechos fluviales”

Macpherson,

Borchgrevink,

Ranjan

et al. 2024

Nat. Soc.: Desafíos Medioambient.

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Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and manner in which, constitutional law (with its elevated status) has been instrumental in the conferral of these ‘riverine rights’ is still not well-understood. In this article, we consider the constitutional relevance of the recognition of rivers as legal persons or subjects in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. We argue that in these three countries riverine rights are constitutional experiments: as small-scale, ad hoc and ultimately incomplete attempts to transcend seemingly ineffective regulatory frameworks for rivers. However, they are also incremental, and influential, steps in a broader project of more fundamental social and environmental reform.

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Section: Derecho Ambiental Y Constitucionalismo: ¿El Siguiente Nivel?unclassified

Cuando la ley se queda corta: constitucionalismo y “derechos fluviales”

Macpherson,

Borchgrevink,

Ranjan

et al. 2024

Nat. Soc.: Desafíos Medioambient.

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“…This enduring concept of Te Awa Tupua underpins the desire of Whanganui iwi to care for, protect, manage and use the Whanganui River through the kawa (customs, values) and tikanga maintained by uri overtime (Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, 2014). Although treaty settlements are full and final according to the law, they are not full and final for Māori (Mutu, 2018) in that they could never fully compensate for what was lost (Mutu, 2019; Te Aho, 2017). However, Whanganui iwi have devised a legal structure in the form of a framework that incorporates tikanga and kawa.…”

Section: Reasserting An Indigenous Frameworkmentioning

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Te Pā Auroa nā Te Awa Tupua: the new (but old) consciousness needed to implement Indigenous frameworks in non-Indigenous organisations

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Mika

Leberman

2022

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 formalised a new way to view, use and understand Te Awa Tupua—the Whanganui River. While giving legal personhood to a river is relatively recent, the paradigm shift towards a new consciousness of natural phenomena having physical and spiritual identities originates from Indigenous knowledge, values and practices. The framework that will implement this new change, Te Pā Auroa nā Te Awa Tupua, is values-based, appoints positions and governance groups, includes a whole-of-river strategy, is supported with funding and applies legal recognition to the Whanganui River and its intrinsic values. This article seeks to build a bridge of understanding to facilitate non-Indigenous engagement with implementing Te Pā Auroa nā Te Awa Tupua as an organising framework for human action and relations with human and nonhuman entities.

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“…Furthermore, sea-level rise threatens papakāinga and urupā. Important traditional resources such as kaimoana are at increasing risk of contamination due to ocean pollution and acidification (Awatere et al, 2021;Bailey-Winiata, 2021;Te Aho, 2020). Pollen-induced respiratory diseases and allergies are also heightened by climate change, with wetter weather causing higher levels of household mould (Jones, 2019).…”

Section: The Impacts Of Colonisation and Climate Change Upon Indigeno...mentioning

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Climate Crisis as a Catalyst to Advance Indigenous Rights

Gray¹,

Milfont²,

Athy³

2022

MAI Journal

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Climate change is the most grievous threat of the 21st century and disproportionately affects politically marginalized communities such as Indigenous peoples. As custodians of approximately 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, Indigenous cultures have practiced sustainable management of ecosystems and resources over millennia providing vital pathways for humanity to better mitigate accelerating climate change impacts. This article argues that a rights-based approach is an important legal avenue to help better protect and advance Indigenous peoples’ rights and the biodiversity in their regions. The challenge is to develop a framework that incorporates Indigenous rights into international human rights law while obtaining judicial buy-in by domestic legal systems and nations. Drawing from international legal instruments to better protect and bolster Indigenous rights, and using Aotearoa New Zealand as a case study, this paper identifies how rights of Indigenous communities can be enhanced while serving the global goals of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Conversations about Indigenous Rights: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Cuando la ley se queda corta: constitucionalismo y “derechos fluviales”

Cuando la ley se queda corta: constitucionalismo y “derechos fluviales”

Te Pā Auroa nā Te Awa Tupua: the new (but old) consciousness needed to implement Indigenous frameworks in non-Indigenous organisations

Climate Crisis as a Catalyst to Advance Indigenous Rights

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