Contents

Table of cases

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Part I Indigenous peoples in international law: basic notions

1 We are still here

2 Who is indigenous?: Concept, de.nition, process

3 Ambiguous discourses: indigenous peoples and the development of international law

4 The age of rights

Part II Global instruments on human rights

5 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights I

6 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights II: Article 27 and other global standards on minority rights

7 The Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

8 Racial discrimination and indigenous peoples – in particular under the Racial Discrimination Convention

9 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: in particular Article 30

Part III Regional human rights protection and indigenous groups

10 The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; African perspectives on indigenous peoples

11 The Inter-American system and indigenous peoples

12 European instruments on human and minority rights

Part IV ILO treaties on indigenous peoples

13 ILO standards I

14 ILO standards II: Convention 169

Part V Emerging standards speci.c to indigenous peoples

15 The UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

16 The Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Part VI Indigenous peoples and human rights

17 Indigenous peoples and the discourses of human rights: a re.ective narrative

Annexes

1 ILO Convention No. 107 on Indigenous and Tribal Populations

2 ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

3 UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

4 CERD General Recommendation VIII: identi.cation with a particular racial or ethnic group

5 CERD General Recommendation XXIII: indigenous peoples

6 CERD General Recommendation XXIV: reporting of persons belonging to different races, etc.

7 General Comment of the HRC on the rights of minorities

Select bibliography

Index