The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 9780190068301

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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples : Oxford University Press : 9780190068301 : 0190068302 : 30 May 2022 : "This book offers a distinctive approach to the key international instrument on indigenous rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration) based on a new account of the political history of the international indigenous movement as it intersected with the Declaration's negotiation. The current orthodoxy is to read the Declaration as containing human rights adapted to the indigenous situation. However, this reading does not do full justice to the complexity and diversity of indigenous peoples' participation in the Declaration negotiations. Instead, I argue that the Declaration should be subject to a novel, mixed-model reading that views the Declaration as embodying two distinct normative strands that serve differenttypes of indigenous peoples. Not only is this model supported by the Declaration's political history and legal

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