About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

11 Hum. Rts. Q. 406 (1989)
The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations

handle is hein.journals/hurq11 and id is 420 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations Douglas Sanders [indigenous peoples are the largest and most disadvantaged group not yet addressed by United Nations standards ...I Indigenous populations have been identified by the United Nations as a distinct category.2 There was initial uncertainty as to where they should be placed in the range of UN concerns. They were recognized in work on racial discrimination, but the goal in combating racism is equality, while the goal of indigenous populations and cultural minorities is distinct group survival. A staff person within the United Nations, Agusto Willemsen Diaz, a lawyer from Guatemala, argued that the problems facing indigenous peoples should be studied separately from issues of racial discrimination. He also wanted to disassociate indigenous questions from the issue of minority rights. Work on minority rights was stalled at the United Nations. A focus on indigenous peoples as a special category could avoid the egalitarian imperative inherent in the fight against racism as well as the political obstacles to progress on minority rights. Agusto Willemsen Diaz' proposal came at a time when international publicity about threats to the isolated tribes in South America had led to the formation of the pioneer support organizations: the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, in 1968, and Survival International, in 1969. In 1971, 1. UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Anti-Slavery Report on NGO Sponsored Workshop, September 1986, Working Paper No. 4, Add. 1, 1987 (the statement is from a report of an informal session of the working group held in 1987 and submitted as a working paper to the 1987 session of the working group by the Anti-Slavery Society). 2. Notable legal articles are: Clinebell and Thomson, Sovereignty and Self-Determination: The Rights of Native Americans under International Law, 27 Buffalo L. Rev. 669 (1978); Sanders, The Re-Emergence of Indigenous Questions in International Law, 1983 Can. Hum. Rts. Y.B. 3 (1983); Barsh, Indigenous North America and Contemporary International Law, 62 Or. L. Rev. 73 (1983); Morris, In Support of the Right ofSelf-Determination forIndigenous Peoples under International Law, 29 Ger. Y.B. Int'l L. 277 (1986). Human Rights Quarterly 11 (1989) 406-433 c 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most