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"Indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, i.a., their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources ..."

"Declaration on the Rights of #Indigenous Peoples" (#UNDRIP, 2007)

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Article 1:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to full enjoyment (...) of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law."

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Article 2:

"Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity."

nytimes.com/2020/08/06/wor…
Article 3:

"Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."

theconversation.com/charles-perkin…
Article 4:

"Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions."

ncrc.org/the-economic-r…
Article 5:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain & strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social & cultural institutions, while retaining rights to participate in the political, economic, social & cultural life of the State."

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Article 6:

"Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality."

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Article 7:

"1. Indigenous individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person."

globalcitizen.org/en/content/lan…
Article 7:

"2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group ..."

theguardian.com/world/2017/oct…
Article 8:

"1. Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture."

bbc.com/news/magazine-…
Article 8:

"2. States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:

a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;"

news.mongabay.com/2020/07/in-the…
Article 8.2:

"b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;"

news.mongabay.com/2020/07/double…
Article 8.2:

"c) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;"

aseantoday.com/2020/08/displa…
Article 8.2:

"d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;"

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Article 8.2:

"e) Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against them."

survivalinternational.org/articles/3540-…
Article 9:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right."

culturalsurvival.org/news/discrimin…
Article 10:

"Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place w/o free, prior & informed consent (...) fair compensation &, where possible, w/ option of return."

theintercept.com/2020/07/17/mcg…
Article 11:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop past, present and future manifestations of their cultures ..."

bbc.com/news/world-lat…
Article 11:

"2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction w/ indigenous peoples, w/ respect to their cultural (...) property taken w/o their free, prior and informed consent ..."

thewalrus.ca/how-indigenous…
Article 12:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practice, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions (...) the right to use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains."

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Article 12:

"2. States shall seek to enable the access and/or repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains in their possession through fair, transparent and effective mechanisms developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned."

bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Article 13:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures ..."

sbs.com.au/news/voices-si…
Article 13:

"2. States shall take effective measures to ensure this right is protected and also to ensure that indigenous peoples can understand and be understood in political, legal and administrative proceedings ..."

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Article 14:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning."

erudit.org/fr/revues/mje/…
Article 14:

"2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination."

theconversation.com/racism-hits-in…
Article 14:

"3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures (...) to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language."

edition.cnn.com/2020/07/20/aus…
Article 15:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information."

press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pres…
Article 15:

"2. States shall take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with the indigenous peoples concerned, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and to promote tolerance, understanding and good relations ..."

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Article 16:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination."

thediscourse.ca/urban-nation/i…
Article 16:

"2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity ..."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Article 17:

"1. Indigenous individuals and peoples have the right to enjoy fully all rights established under applicable international and domestic labour law."

nber.org/papers/w25849.…
Article 17:

"2. States shall in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples take specific measures to protect indigenous children from economic exploitation ..."

indiancountrytoday.com/archive/exploi…
Article 17:

"3. Indigenous individuals have the right not to be subjected to any discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary."

universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…
Article 18:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights (...) as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions."

psmag.com/social-justice…
Article 19:

"States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions (...) before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them."

thehill.com/latino/484853-…
Article 20:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development ..."

cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
Article 20:

"2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of subsistence and development are entitled to just and fair redress."

theguardian.com/global-develop…
Article 21:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions ..."

insidestory.org.au/the-long-road-…
Article 21:

"2. States shall take effective measures (...) Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities."

theconversation.com/indigenous-peo…
Article 22:

"1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration."

canada.ca/en/employment-…
Article 22:

"2. States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination."

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Article 23:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them ..."

thetyee.ca/News/2017/10/3…
Article 24:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines (...) Indigenous individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services."

globalnews.ca/news/4398976/i…
Article 24:

"2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps w/ a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Article 25:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources ..."

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Article 26:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired."

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Article 26:

"2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use ..."

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Article 26:

"3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned."

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Article 27:

"States shall (...) recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used ..."

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Article 28:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to (...) a just, fair & equitable compensation, for lands, territories & resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, & which have been confiscated, taken, occupied ..."

vox.com/2015/5/27/8618…
Article 28:

"2. Unless otherwise freely agreed upon by the peoples concerned, compensation shall take the form of lands, territories and resources equal in quality, size and legal status or of monetary compensation or other appropriate redress."

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
Article 29:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall establish and implement assistance programmes ..."

narf.org/cases/keystone
Article 29:

"2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent."

wp.wpi.edu/envirohist/201…
Article 29:

"3. States shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programmes for monitoring, maintaining and restoring the health of indigenous peoples (...) affected by such materials, are duly implemented."

globalnews.ca/news/5362345/m…
Article 30:

"1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples, unless justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the indigenous peoples concerned."

theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
Article30:

"2. States shall undertake effective consultations w/ indigenous peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, prior to using their lands or territories for military activities."

news.un.org/en/story/2020/…
Article 31:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage (...) as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources ..."

qz.com/1719314/the-th…
Article 31:

"2. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, States shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights."

hcn.org/articles/indig…
Article 32:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources."

brookings.edu/blog/up-front/…
Article 32:

"2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned (...) prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources ..."

theguardian.com/australia-news…
Article 32:

"3. States shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact."

wri.org/blog/2018/05/i…
Article 33:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance w/ their customs & traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live."

abc.net.au/religion/citiz…
Article 33:

"2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures."

survivalinternational.org/articles/evang…
Article 34:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and distinctive customs (...) juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards."

newsobserver.com/news/local/edu…
Article 35:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the responsibilities of individuals to their communities."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Article 36:

"1. Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation ..."

yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/0…
Article 36:

"2. States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right."

africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org/colonial-borde…
Article 37:

"1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance & enforcement of Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements concluded with States or their successors and to have States honour and respect such Treaties ..."

npr.org/sections/codes…
Article 37:

"2. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as to diminish or eliminate the rights of Indigenous Peoples contained in Treaties, Agreements and Constructive Arrangements."

opencanada.org/features/undri…
Article 38:

"States in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of this Declaration."

americanbar.org/groups/crsj/pu…
Article 39:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from States and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration."

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Article 40:

"Indigenous peoples have the right to (...) prompt decision (...) for the resolution of conflicts and disputes with States [with] due consideration to the customs (...) of the indigenous peoples concerned and international human rights."

foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/07/ira…
Article 41:

"The organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of this Declaration ..."

globalnews.ca/news/6101723/u…
Article 42:

"The United Nations (...) shall promote respect for and full application of the provisions of this Declaration and follow up the effectiveness of this Declaration."

anu.edu.au/news/all-news/…
Article 43:

"The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world."

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Article 44:

"All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female indigenous individuals."

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Article 45:

"Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights indigenous peoples have now or may acquire in the future."

theconversation.com/indigenous-peo…
Article 46:

"1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted (...) as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States."

nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics…
Article 46:

"2. In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected ..."

colorado.edu/program/fpw/20…
Article 46:

"3. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith."

sierraclub.org/sierra/letter-…
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