Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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international developments in indigenous rights

  • Navajo Supreme Court justices
    In Native American: International developments

    …Human Rights received the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The commission assigned a working group to review the declaration, and in 2006 the group submitted a final document to the Human Rights Council. Despite efforts by many members of the UN General Assembly to block a vote…

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work of Dodson

  • Mick Dodson
    In Mick Dodson

    Dodson assisted in drafting the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2007.

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