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When Contact Kills: Indigenous Peoples Living In Voluntary Isolation During Covid, Sital Kalantry, Nicholas Koeppen
When Contact Kills: Indigenous Peoples Living In Voluntary Isolation During Covid, Sital Kalantry, Nicholas Koeppen
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
During the global pandemic, people around the world are at risk of serious illness and death from contact and proximity to other people. But Indigenous peoples, particularly those in voluntary isolation, have always faced that risk. International organizations have relied on the right to self-determination as the primary legal grounds to justify the principle of no-contact for Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. This Essay argues that the right to life and right to health when properly contextualized are stronger bases to push states to prevent outsiders from contacting people living in voluntary isolation.
The United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: A New Dawn For Indigenous Peoples Rights?, Ronald Kakungulu
The United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: A New Dawn For Indigenous Peoples Rights?, Ronald Kakungulu
Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers
Governments in many countries of the world struggle with how to accommodate properly the needs and claims [rights] of native/indigenous peoples within their jurisdictions whose presence long predates European conquest and occupation. In this paper, a comparison and contrast of the approaches of the African and other jurisdictions whose jurisprudence is informative to the protection of the rights of African indigenous peoples, like the Inter-American Court of Human Rights compared with the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia ‘the big four’ who voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous on September 13, 2007 at the UN General …
Making Room For Peoples At The United Nations: Thoughts Provoked By Indigenous Claims To Self-Determination, Maivan Clech Lam
Making Room For Peoples At The United Nations: Thoughts Provoked By Indigenous Claims To Self-Determination, Maivan Clech Lam
Cornell International Law Journal
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Indigenous People’S Rights Of Political Participation And Self-Determination: Recent International Legal Developments And The Continuing Struggle For Recognition, Mary Ellen Turpel
Indigenous People’S Rights Of Political Participation And Self-Determination: Recent International Legal Developments And The Continuing Struggle For Recognition, Mary Ellen Turpel
Cornell International Law Journal
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