Superpower attitudes toward indigenous peoples and group rights

From: American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

by S. James Anaya*

Much has been said about the historical complicity of international law-or dominant thinking about international law-in the oppression of minority and indigenous peoples and their cultures. So it is perhaps with some irony that groups that are identified as indigenous are now looking to international law as a means of reversing the historical patterns of oppression and securing their cultural identities.

Largely as a result of their own advocacy at the international level, indigenous peoples or populations are now distinct subjects of concern within the United Nations ...

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