Serious violations of indigenous peoples' rights by the United States, Canada and Australia are not just something of the past, but a matter of chronic and systemic racism that continues to this day, a senior Chinese diplomat said here Friday. Speaking at a video side-event co-hosted by the...
Australiaindigenous rightsinternal colonialismreconciliationself-determinationReconciliation as a peacemaking paradigm emerged as an innovative response to some of the mass atrocities and human rights violations that marked the 20th century. It provided an alternative to traditional...
GENEVA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- China and a group of countries on Monday called on the UN Human Rights Council to continue to attend to serious human rights violations against indigenous people and take necessary actions accordingly. Delivering a joint statement on behalf of the group of countries...
(Cover: Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the UN in Geneva, speaks during an online event titled "Systemic Violations of Indigenous People's Rights by the U.S., Canada and Australia" on the sidelines of the 49th session of the Human Rights Council in Genev...
Since 1982, with the creation of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the UN has taken steps toward addressing the violations of indigenous human rights around the globe that have characterized the colonization of indigenous peoples by western nations since the 15th century. This article explo...
Reparations for victims of gross human rights violations are an increasingly common feature in postauthoritarian and postconflict societies dealing with the legacy of a violent past. This trend is confirmed by the recommendations of several truth commissions and by the jurisprudence of both national an...
which aimed to strip them of their culture and subjected them to severe abuse and neglect. These findings confirm a long-suspected truth and represent just one chapter in colonialism's past and present of human rights violations, cultural erasure, and systematic discrimination against Indigenous peopl...
Inform, educate and enhance awareness of indigenous people's rights, especially Pacific indigenous people's rights, violations of these rights; and the relationship of our Pacific indigenous people's rights issues to the global struggle of indigenous people against oppression and exploitation. Establish...
A number of lawyers went to the International Criminal Court last year to ask for investigations into the possible gross human rights violations with respect to those institutions. The lawyers were turned away, she said. "I believe that we're gonna continue to press on the ICC to also look ...
Mazel (2018) examines how Indigenous communities in Australia use human rights discourse strategically to advocate for better health and socioeconomic outcomes, influencing human rights discourse in the process. In Canada, scholars have focused on legal rights extended to Indigenous communities as an ...