International

Divided into seven sections: Legal Frameworks and Analysis; DNA and Property Rights; Historical and Theoretical Accounts of Intellectual Property Rights; Case Studies; Biological Resources and Ethnomedicine; Websites on Intellectual Property Rights and Related Issues; and Organizations.

Juridical Sciences Thesis (JSD)--University of Toronto, 2017.

Highlights potential problems and pitfalls which foreign policy analysts and practitioners should be aware of when seeking to learn from and about Indigenous diplomacies.

Brief overview of initiatives in Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Opening remarks by Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations at Palais Des Nations, Geneva, August 9, 1995. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.

Comments on the fundamental human rights violations and physical and sexual violence experienced by Aboriginal girls.

Looks at the treatment of prisoners and the management of prisons in Australia.

Book review of: International Law and Indigenous Knowledge by Chidi Oguamanam. Scroll to page 446 to read review.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2000.

Presented at an International Housing conference, Adequate and Affordable Housing For All: Research, Policy, Practice, held June 24-27, 2004.

Examines the right to health in international law and Canada's obligation to implement that right for Indigenous people.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 2004.

Examines the bio-prospecting/bio-piracy debate in the context of traditional knowledge as an important component in an aboriginal economic development strategy.

Website contains links to: news, publications (majority full-text), human rights, environment and development, culture and identity, etc.

Members of the Internationalization of Indigenous Rights Research Group report on various aspects of Canada's failure to fully implement the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Looks at events such as the Oka crisis that influenced federal Aboriginal policy and reviews activities of the European Parliament.

Interview with former Prefect under the Carlos Mesa government. To access article, scroll down to page 70.

Interview with the former parliamentary representative and Constituenty Assembly member from the Chiquitano people. To access this article, scroll down to page 76.

Interview with the new vice-president of CIDOB (the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente/Confereración de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente Boliviano). To access this article, scroll down to page 72.

Introduction to special issue on Nicaragua. Looks challenges, rights, sovereignty and safeguarding human rights of Indigenous women.

Introduction and document concerning the draft declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Introduction and five archival documents chronicle Chief Levi General's attempts to have his petition regarding Iroquois nationalism heard at the Assembly of the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations.

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Excerpts from keynote address at the Special Convocation held at the University of Saskatchewan on June 27, 1996. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.

Review of August 1982 meeting in Geneva.

Brief statement by President of the Native Women's Association of Canada addresses violence in general, murdered and missing women, and Canadian government's failure to respond to these issues.

Discusses history and collaboration of these three entities.

Looks at effect of deferring the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the Third General Assembly.

Discusses background, initiatives and projects supported in Africa.

Briefly identifies the topic priorities contained in the programme strategy.

Comments on ruling giving Bushmen the legal right to live on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

IWGIA voices concerns about the adoption of "The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly at the end of the year. To access this article, scroll down to page 7.

This folder contains a typescript of a letter from Walsh to his daughter Cora written in 1890, in which he describes his meetings with Sitting Bull and other aboriginal peoples in the late 1870s; and Walsh's account of how he 'succeeded in undoing' what Louis Riel had done to form a federation of the Indians and half-breeds of the prairies in 1877-1879.

Critiques the Canadian government's failure to comply with the tenets of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Discusses the discriminatory policies and actions toward Aboriginal children in Canada, focusing on Jordan's Principle and Shannen's Dream.

In 1945 the USSC (Supreme Court of the United States) considered the Treaty of 1835 and held Indian Treaties are to be interpreted according to their "tenor and intent" and not to be otherwise construed "to remedy alleged injustices."

Examines the sources, content and proof of land rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from the common law perspective. Allow time for the link to download the article.

Cree lawyer speaks at the Karonhianónhnha School about the political landscape of Canada. Duration: 48:25.

Argues that because of the government's refusal to name or prosecute individuals involved in violations of human rights, victims of residential schools have not received justice.

Brief discussion of context and early learning, education, health, culture and language, and child welfare followed by comments on Canada's fifth and sixth reports on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child and recommendations about policy and legal avenues to address inequalities.

Brief account of Grand Chief's life as an advocate for Indigenous rights locally and internationally.

Edited papers from three conferences held at McGill University, Faculty of Law in 1990, 1991, and 1992

Discusses a demographic shift in international academic feminist organizations and how it has affected these organizations’ view of conflict in Palestine and of the Israeli settler state. Examines global factors that contributed to a historic lack of support for the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in support of Palestinian sovereignty.

Discusses World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) efforts to harmonize intellectual property and patent law and policy and questions the practice of trying to translate knowledge from one sphere to another.

Discusses how the Ikalahan people manage 15,000 hectares of ancestral land.

Discusses the innovative radio series on the rights of Indigenous people, and the Kannada language interactive program that converts global issues into local issues.

Discusses activism literature using story published in 1974 as an example.

Discusses the implications of the decision by the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, under its Urgent Action Procedure, which directs the United States to cease its violation of Shoshone land rights.