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Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements of cultural heritage that are a part of their existence and identity as a people.
Tasked with developing human rights standards that would protect indigenous peoples, in 1985 the working group began working on drafting the declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The draft was finished in 1993 and was submitted to the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities , which gave its ...
This is a list of indigenous rights organizations.Some of these organizations are members of other organizations listed in this article. Sometimes local organizations associated with particular groups of indigenous people will join in a regional or national organization, which in turn can join an even higher organization, along with other member supraorganizations.
Indigenous land rights are the rights of Indigenous peoples to land and natural resources therein, either individually or collectively, mostly in colonised countries. Land and resource-related rights are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples for a range of reasons, including: the religious significance of the land, self-determination, identity, and economic factors. [1]
The country has one of the largest Indigenous peoples population in the world. The recognition of the rights of Indigenous peoples was legally enshrined in 1997 with the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act. [176] In Myanmar, indigenous peoples include the Shan, the Karen, the Rakhine, the Karenni, the Chin, the Kachin and the Mon.
Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...
Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997; Indigenous response to colonialism; International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; International Decade of Indigenous ...
The convention requires that the nation state work with indigenous groups to create a legal framework for protecting the legal rights of the indigenous groups. [6] These actions include ensuring that the indigenous individuals have the same rights as the non-indigenous, and to recognize and help preserve the traditions and cultural identity of ...