Indigenous Self-Determinaton and Decolonization of the International Imagination: A Plea
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Human Rights Quarterly
- Vol. 18 (4) , 814-820
- https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.1996.0049
Abstract
The most basic point I would like to make is that the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (draft Declaration) is about recognition and about being human. It is about the right to be recognized as [End Page 814] human whatever one’s difference, rather than having difference serve as a basis for exclusion from the rights to which all humans are supposed to be universally entitled.Keywords
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