Reparations for Indigenous Peoples: Global International Instruments and Institutions

• Published in: Reparations for Indigenous Peoples
• Main Author: Claire, Charters
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 24.01.2008
• Subjects: international jurisprudence; human rights; treaties; international law; ILO
• ISBN: 0199235600; 9780199235605
• DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235605.003.0007

Reparations to indigenous peoples for violations of their rights form a complex body of international law, and part of a larger international jurisprudence dealing with reparations on the one hand and indigenous peoples' rights on the other. This chapter empirically analyses a subset of those broader topics, namely the type of the reparations for violations of indigenous peoples' rights detailed in, first, global international instruments and, second, in international institutional jurisprudence. The instruments examined include the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (ILO Convention 169), the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration), and human rights treaties. The institutions analysed include the ILO, human rights treaty bodies, and a number of specialist bodies that deal with indigenous peoples' human rights, such as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People (the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous People).