International Discussion of the Concerns of Indigenous Peoples: The United Nations and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Alfreðsson, Guðmundur

doi:10.1086/203740

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“…As she details, the WGIP reports to the UN Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, which in turn reports to the UN Commission on Human Rights. See also Alfredsson 1989, Burger 1994. According to UN Resolution 2000/22, the Permanent Forum serves as an advisory body to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).…”

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Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas

Hodgson

2002

American Anthropologist

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Using ethnographic case studies, these "In Focus" articles explore the indigenous rights movements in two regions, Africa and the Americas, where the histories, agendas, and dynamics of the movements are at once similar and different. They consider a range of relevant questions about the politics of representation, recognition, resources, and rights as these movements engage shifting political and economic landscapes; transnational discourses, alliances, and organizations; and the complicated cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion invoked by the term indigenous. As such, they offer a critical, comparative perspective on the issues of culture, power, representation, and difference inherent in the complicated alliances, articulations, and tensions that have produced and transformed the transnational indigenous rights movement. This introduction provides a brief history of the movement, highlights some major themes in previous anthropological work, reviews the insights of the section articles, and explores some of the ways in which anthropologists have engaged with the movement. [

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Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas

Hodgson

2002

American Anthropologist

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“…The Working Group on Indigenous Peoples first met in 1982 (Dunbar‐Oritz 2006). It was initially a subsidiary of the Sub‐Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (Alfredson 1989). The sessions of the Working Group are a forum for the exchange of ideas among indigenous groups.…”

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“…The Working Group on Indigenous Peoples is also ‘one of the largest U.N. forums in the field of human rights’ (Quesenberry 1997). In 1984, the United Nations released its first study of indigenous peoples, written over the course of 13 years by special rapporteur José R. Martínez (Alfredson 1989). Like the Working Group, this document also represents participation by both member states and indigenous peoples.…”

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A Review of the Study of the Political Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Global Context

Smith

2007

Sociology Compass

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This paper reviews the literature examining indigenous peoples in the global community. Recent studies tend to focus on one of three themes: definition of indigenousness, relationships with the state, and the role of indigenous peoples in the international governing structure. This paper will examine each of these themes. I begin by exploring definitions of indigenousness, looking at the differing definitions employed by the international governing organizations, indigenous peoples, and the academic literature. In the next section, I explore the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state. The indigenous-state relationship is dominated by the influence of the state. Indigenous groups reject this dominance, seeking freedoms from the state, disputing land rights, and using the weight of morals to motivate the state. However, the state structure itself might enable indigenous groups to attain freedoms and rights. In the final section, I explore discussions of the role of indigenous peoples in the international community.

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Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives

Hornberger¹

1998

Lang. Soc.

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Indigenous languages are under siege, not only in the US but around the world -in danger of disappearing because they are not being transmitted to the next generation. Immigrants and their languages worldwide are similarly subjected to seemingly irresistible social, political, and economic pressures. This article discusses a number of such cases, including Shawandawa from the Brazilian Amazon, Quechua in the South American Andes, the East Indian communities of South Africa, Khmer in Philadelphia, Welsh, Maori, Turkish in the UK, and Native Californian languages. At a time when phrases like "endangered languages" and "linguicism" are invoked to describe the plight of the world's vanishing linguistic resources in their encounter with the phenomenal growth of world languages such as English, the cases reviewed here provide consistent and compelling evidence that language policy and language education serve as vehicles for promoting the vitality, versatility, and stability of these languages, and ultimately promote the rights of their speakers to participate in the global community on and IN their own terms.

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International Discussion of the Concerns of Indigenous Peoples: The United Nations and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Cited by 5 publications

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Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas

Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas

A Review of the Study of the Political Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Global Context

Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives

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