Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous peoples, the United Nations and human rights / editor, Sarah Pritchard.

Publication

London : Zed Books ; Leichhardt, NSW, Australia : Federation Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pritchard, Sarah.

Description

xi, 243 pages : form; 22 cm

Summary

This important book is a guide to how Indigenous peoples' groups can access the UN system.

Subject

• Nations Unies > Et les droits de l'homme
• Human rights
• Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc
• Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc
• Human Rights
• Human rights
• Indigenous peoples
• United Nations
• Droits de l'homme (droit international)
• Autochtones > Droit > Statut juridique
• Aborigènes d'Australie > Statut juridique
• Iwi taketake

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index.

Contents

• The significance of international law / Sarah Pritchard -- Linking international standards with contemporary concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / Mick Dodson -- The UN Charter-based human rights system : an overview / Garth Nettheim -- Working Group on Indigenous Populations : mandate, standard-setting activities and future perspectives / Sarah Pritchard -- The UN treaty-based human rights system : an overview / Hilary Charlesworth -- Individual complaints : an overview and admissibility requirements / Hilary Charlesworth.
• Individual complaints : historical perspectives and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Philip Alston -- Individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / Elizabeth Evatt -- Individual communications : the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination / Michael O'Flaherty -- Periodic reporting : the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Philip Alston.
• Periodic reporting : the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women / Elizabeth Evatt -- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : non-governmental input and the early warning and urgent procedure / Michael O'Flaherty -- Substantive provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination / Michael O'Flaherty -- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Indigenous peoples / Sarah Pritchard.

ISBN

• 1862872597
• 9781862872592
• 1856495930
• 9781856495936
• 1856495949
• 9781856495943

LCCN

98198160

OCLC

• ocm39468005
• 39468005
• SCSB-9020280

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library