A Critical Reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Green
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 29, no. 3, Winter, 2019
Description
Article discusses philosophical underpinnings of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) noting that the Declaration favours Western cultures, hierarchical rankings of rights, and focuses on the rights of individuals rather than communities and fails to consider the rights of the land itself.