International Indigenous Law

This webpage is intended to be a starting point for finding resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples history, culture and knowledge, with a focus on international Indigenous Law.

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“Indigenous Peoples International Law“

Books

Indigenous Peoples As Subjects of International Law by Irene Watson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781315628318
Publication Date: 2017
For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded. Many appeals for their recognition under international law have been made, but have thus far failed - mainly because international law was itself shaped by colonialism. How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins? With contributions from critical legal theory, international law, politics, philosophy and Indigenous history, this volume pursues a cross-disciplinary analysis of the international legal exclusion of Indigenous Peoples, and of its relationship to global injustice.

Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Stephen Allen
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
In-depth academic analysis of this far-reaching instrument.

Routledge Handbook of International Law by David Armstrong
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2009
Provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of international politics and international law.

Websites

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Declaration is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of Indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the Indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to Indigenous peoples.