Politics of Belonging and Connection to Land Through Spirituality: to Enforce the Un Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The goal of this presentation is to stress the importance of a politics of belonging and connection to land through spirituality to enforce the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
First I will try to explain where the recognition of indigenous peoples rights is in the Un System and than illustrate the future challenges that Indigenous Peoples will have to face in the path for self determination and repossession of identity.
Just ahead of the G8 Summit in July 2008, the Ainu Association invited twenty-four indigenous delegates in Hokkaido to discuss climate change and indigenous survival during the Indigenous Peoples Summit (IPS) in Ainu Mosir 2008. A declaration was released at the end of the summit: the NIBUTANI DECLARATION OF THE 2008 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUMMIT. This declaration states that the implementation of the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples will not only benefit Indigenous Peoples but will also benefit the earth and the rest of the world. If Indigenous People will be able to continue practicing their sustainable ways of caring for the earth and caring for their relatives, not only human beings, but also plants, animals and all other living things, everybody will benefit from it.
One of the most notable features of the contemporary International human rights regime has been the recognition of indigenous peoples as special subjects of concern. A discrete body of international human rights law upholding the collective rights of indigenous peoples has emerged and is rapidly developing. The passage of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nation General Assembly on September 13, 2007 is of enormous importance, but as a UN declaration and not a convention, the DRIP is not legally binding on states, but rather, it is a political document which became part of the international human right consensus and its principles are, in some sense, morally binding on all state.
This declaration and its hoped
First I will try to explain where the recognition of indigenous peoples rights is in the Un System and than illustrate the future challenges that Indigenous Peoples will have to face in the path for self determination and repossession of identity.
Just ahead of the G8 Summit in July 2008, the Ainu Association invited twenty-four indigenous delegates in Hokkaido to discuss climate change and indigenous survival during the Indigenous Peoples Summit (IPS) in Ainu Mosir 2008. A declaration was released at the end of the summit: the NIBUTANI DECLARATION OF THE 2008 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUMMIT. This declaration states that the implementation of the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples will not only benefit Indigenous Peoples but will also benefit the earth and the rest of the world. If Indigenous People will be able to continue practicing their sustainable ways of caring for the earth and caring for their relatives, not only human beings, but also plants, animals and all other living things, everybody will benefit from it.
One of the most notable features of the contemporary International human rights regime has been the recognition of indigenous peoples as special subjects of concern. A discrete body of international human rights law upholding the collective rights of indigenous peoples has emerged and is rapidly developing. The passage of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nation General Assembly on September 13, 2007 is of enormous importance, but as a UN declaration and not a convention, the DRIP is not legally binding on states, but rather, it is a political document which became part of the international human right consensus and its principles are, in some sense, morally binding on all state.
This declaration and its hoped
Bibliography: • Lightfoot, Sheryl R. “Indigenous Rights in International Politics: The Case of ‘Over-Compliant’ Liberal States”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008. • Jeffrey Sissons, First Peoples. Indigenous Cultures and their Futures, London, Reaktion Books, 2005. • United Nations. General Assembly. Department of Public Information. Press Release. “General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” 13 September 2007.