Indigenous Rights in the Russian Federation: The Rights Case of Numerically Small Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia, and Far East

Xanthaki, Alexandra

doi:10.1353/hrq.2004.0012

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“…To date, this entitlement has been interpreted as access to the full continuum of care (family physicians, specialists, hospital, public health, etc.). In the continental United States, under-resourcing and structural issues (small dispersed populations, diseconomies of scale) have resulted in chronic staff shortages within the Indian Health Service, barriers to accessing quality care, and poorer outcomes for Indigenous peoples (Levinson, 2016 , 1868, 1904a, 1904b, 1924, 1971, 1975, 1992Canada, 1876aCanada, , 1876bCanada, , 1966Canada, , 1974Canada, , 1982bCanada, , 1985Foighel, 1979;Health Canada, 1979;Government of Canada, 1985;Canada and Nunavut Tapariit Kanatami, 1993;Case and Voluck, 2002;Aaen-Larsen, 2004;Koivurova, 2008;Greenland, 2009; United States of American Office of the Legislative Counsel, 2010; Constituteproject.org, 2014;Statistics Canada, 2016a, 2016bStatistics Denmark, 2018;Statistics Greenland, 2018 Guarantees extend only to small-numbered Indigenous peoples with population of less than 50,000 members (Xanthaki, 2004).…”

Section: Equitable Access To Health Carementioning

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Historical foundations and contemporary expressions of a right to health care in Circumpolar Indigenous contexts

Lavoie

Stoor

Rink

et al. 2021

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Although numerous comparative Indigenous health policy analyses exist in the literature, to date, little attention has been paid to comparative analyses of Circumpolar health policy and the impact these policies may have on Indigenous peoples’ rights to health. In this article, we ground our discussion of Indigenous peoples’ right to access culturally appropriate and responsive health care within the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Under UNDRIP, signatory states are obligated to guarantee that Indigenous peoples have access to the same services accessible to all citizens without discrimination. Signatory states must also guarantee access to services that are grounded in Indigenous cultures, medicines, and practices and must address Indigenous peoples’ determinants of health at least to the same extent as their national counterparts. Our analysis finds that the implementation of this declaration varies across the Circumpolar north. The United States recognizes an obligation to provide health care for American Indian and Alaska Native people in exchange for the land that was taken from them. Other countries provide Indigenous citizens access to care in the same health care systems as other citizens. Intercultural models of care exist in Alaska and to some extent across the Canadian territories. However, aside from Sámi Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Substance Use in northern Norway, intercultural models are absent in Nordic countries and in Greenland. While Russia has not ratified UNDRIP, Russian policy guarantees access to health care to all citizens, although access is particularly limited in rural and remote environments, including the Russian Arctic. We conclude that Circumpolar nations should begin and/or expand commitments to culturally appropriate, self-determined, access to health care in Circumpolar contexts to reduce health inequities and adhere to obligations outlined in UNDRIP.

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Section: Equitable Access To Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Historical foundations and contemporary expressions of a right to health care in Circumpolar Indigenous contexts

Lavoie

Stoor

Rink

et al. 2021

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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“…In 1999, the Russia government passed the Federal Law on the Guarantees of the Rights of Indigenous Small-numbered Peoples of the Russian Federation. Other relevant laws include the Federal Law on National Cultural Autonomy (1996), the Federal Law on General Principles of the Organization of Communities of IPs of the North, Siberia, and the Far East (2000), and the Land Code (2001) [78,79]. These laws guarantee IPs' ability to use land for traditional economic activities and receive compensation for damages to their traditional livelihoods.…”

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Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia

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The paper examines interactions of oil companies and reindeer herders in the tundra of the Russian Arctic. We focus on governance arrangements that have an impact on the sustainability of oil production and reindeer herding. We analyze a shift in benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies and Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders in Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO), Russia, as an evolution of the herders’ rights, defined as the intertwined co-production of legal processes, ideologies, and power relations. Semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis demonstrate that in NAO, benefit-sharing shifted from paternalism (dependent on herders’ negotiation skills) to company-centered social responsibility (formalized compensation rules). This shift was enabled by the adoption of a formal methodology for calculating income lost due to extractive projects and facilitated by the regional government’s efforts to develop reindeer-herding. While laws per se did not change, herders’ ability to access compensation and markets increased. This paper shows that even when ideologies of indigeneity are not influential, the use of existing laws and convergence of the government’s and Indigenous groups’ economic interests may shift legal processes and power relations toward greater rights for Indigenous groups.

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“…Также выделяются 40 коренных народов, которые определяется российским законодательством как «коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока» (КМНС). Защита прав коренных народов в России в целом соответствует международным подходам [12]. Согласно Всероссийской переписи населения в 2010 г. общая численность коренных народов в России составляла около 258 тыс.…”

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Corporate social responsibility in the course of industrial development of Yakutia: last decade experience

Gavrilyeva¹,

Yakovleva²,

Boyakova³

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The article analyses federal and regional legislative norms for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples of the North, as well as assesses their impact on the formation of standards and the CSR (corporate social responsibility) practice in the course of a new wave of industrial development of Yakutia. In 2012—2019 various expert organizations in accordance with the law of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on ethnological expertise, adopted in 2010, conducted more than 20 ethnological expert reviews. The analysis of the examinations carried out revealed methodological shortcomings in assessing the damage to the nature, environmental and social consequences. To prevent damage to the natural environment, it is necessary to create a system of public monitoring and partially delegate the powers of state and (or) corporate bodies for environmental protection to indigenous communities. The successful practice of corporate social responsibility of large companies, both regional and external, has formed the preconditions for the transition to co-management strategies, which is the best international practice. Within the framework of the new model of corporate social responsibility (CSR), business incentives should be envisaged, and the possibility of attributing the costs of implementing agreements with the region and local communities to operating costs should be provided.

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Indigenous Rights in the Russian Federation: The Rights Case of Numerically Small Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia, and Far East

Cited by 30 publications

References 12 publications

Historical foundations and contemporary expressions of a right to health care in Circumpolar Indigenous contexts

Historical foundations and contemporary expressions of a right to health care in Circumpolar Indigenous contexts

Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia

Corporate social responsibility in the course of industrial development of Yakutia: last decade experience

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