Indigenous rights discourse in Australia

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Helen Stacy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse

scholarly journals ‘Another Tool in the Kete’: Māori Engaging with the International Human Rights Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hannah Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Way

<p>In this study, I consider how the universal concept of human rights is being engaged with and interpreted by Māori communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The rights of indigenous peoples have recently been formally defined within United Nations forums and cemented in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This research argues that the indigenous rights movement indicates a shift in many of the debates that have dominated the global rights rhetoric to a more evolutionary concept of human rights. It suggests that engaging with these debates has the potential to open up new dialogue within the human rights discourse for alternative ways of considering human rights at the global level. This will impact the way that rights-based approaches to development are implemented, engaged with and utilised at the local level. However, currently little is known about the ways in which indigenous communities are using human rights at the local level. This work focuses on a successful rights-based community development programme as a case study. Through this exploration, I consider the levels of empowerment and the positive impacts that resulted from increased knowledge of human rights in the region. I further present some of the principles inherent in the successful application of a rights-based development project. From a methodological perspective, it provides an exploration into the way that research involving indigenous communities is conducted. As a Pākehā researcher working with Māori communities I had to take extra care to ensure that this research had an ethically sound methodological foundation. Taking a critical perspective, I consider some of the political and social implications of being a non-indigenous researcher working with indigenous communities. This work illustrates that highly ethical, critical methodological approaches are essential to any development work. Overall, the research proposes that Māori concepts of human rights are placed within a distinct cultural framework. Human rights are understood and given meaning through Kaupapa Māori, tikanga and whakapapa. They are also framed within the experiences of a colonial history. This research provides an example of how this universal framework is localised to fit particular historical, local and cultural contexts increasing its potential to be a tool for positive social change. It provides a conceptual, methodological and practical inquiry into rights-based approaches as a way of delivering development.</p>

Part I The UNDRIP’s Relationship to Existing International Law, Ch.3 Relationship to Human Rights, and Related International Instruments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scheinin Martin ◽  
Åhrén Mattias
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
International Instruments

This chapter analyses how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) fits within the broader picture of international legal instruments, with specific reference to related human rights norms. In many respects, the general approach the UNDRIP takes towards indigenous rights is natural. Largely from the very day indigenous peoples' representatives started to address the UN in order to claim recognition of and respect for their rights, the focus of such claims has been on allowing indigenous peoples the possibility to preserve, maintain, and develop their own distinct societies, existing side by side with the majority society. In other words, political rights — or sovereign rights — have always been at the forefront of the indigenous rights regime. In that way, indigenous peoples' rights distinguish themselves from those that apply to minority groups that are primarily individual rights. Thus, when placing emphasis on peoples' rights, the UNDRIP follows in the tradition of the indigenous rights discourse in general, as reflected in Article 3 of the Declaration.

Indigenous Rights Discourse in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
aklima jesmin ◽  
Emamul Islam ◽  
Md. Ashrafur Rahman ◽  
Aminul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Minority People

Socio-economic and political struggles of the ethnic minority people in Bangladesh resulted from the cumulative injustice and exploitation throughout the history – hence, both the retrospective and prospective analysis were essentials for understanding today’s indigenous rights discourse in Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to generate a discourse over indigenous people’s rights with specific case of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) in Bangladesh to be revisited by the intellectual communities, policy and law makers and human rights activists to uphold the social justice. It was a qualitative study used exhaustive literature reviews along with four key Informant Interviews to recontextualize the findings. A discourse analysis revealed that the existing human rights violations against the ethnic minorities in (CHT) was deeply rooted in the <i>habitus </i>of the society with strong influences by the political cultures, which had naturalized the oppression against them through language (expressed/ unexpressed) under the mantle of nationalism. However, “Diversity” could be an alternative language to slowly diffuse the dominant discriminatory political culture and to promote the rights of all ethnic minorities in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals An alternative conceptualization of indigenous rights in Africa under the international human rights law framework

2018 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Ruwadzano P. Makumbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Indigenous Rights Movement ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

<p>This article is a practice-based elucidation of how indigenous rights can be securely protected and implemented in the broader human rights discourse. The concept of indigeneity is contested in many African countries with the primary question being: Who is indigenous? The ‘politics of recognition’ have stalled the work of the African indigenous rights movement thus far and this paper builds upon the discourse on Indigenous rights, making a proposition towards an effective machinery to facilitate their protection. Therefore, the focus is to construct a different perspective which emphasizes the need to utilize, develop and improve the existent human rights machinery. This is done through the reconceptualization of indigenous rights by utilizing the ethno-cultural protections machinery. In the last part of this article I look at the San peoples in Zimbabwe as a representative case study to bring into perspective the lived realities of indigenous peoples in Africa.</p><p><strong>Received</strong>: 28 June 2018<br /><strong>Accepted</strong>: 23 October 2018<br /><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2018</p>

Indigenous Rights Discourse in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
aklima jesmin ◽  
Emamul Islam ◽  
Md. Ashrafur Rahman ◽  
Aminul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Minority People

Socio-economic and political struggles of the ethnic minority people in Bangladesh resulted from the cumulative injustice and exploitation throughout the history – hence, both the retrospective and prospective analysis were essentials for understanding today’s indigenous rights discourse in Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to generate a discourse over indigenous people’s rights with specific case of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) in Bangladesh to be revisited by the intellectual communities, policy and law makers and human rights activists to uphold the social justice. It was a qualitative study used exhaustive literature reviews along with four key Informant Interviews to recontextualize the findings. A discourse analysis revealed that the existing human rights violations against the ethnic minorities in (CHT) was deeply rooted in the <i>habitus </i>of the society with strong influences by the political cultures, which had naturalized the oppression against them through language (expressed/ unexpressed) under the mantle of nationalism. However, “Diversity” could be an alternative language to slowly diffuse the dominant discriminatory political culture and to promote the rights of all ethnic minorities in Bangladesh.

Indigenous Rights Discourse in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
aklima jesmin ◽  
Emamul Islam ◽  
Md. Ashrafur Rahman ◽  
Aminul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Minority People

Socio-economic and political struggles of the ethnic minority people in Bangladesh resulted from the cumulative injustice and exploitation throughout the history – hence, both the retrospective and prospective analysis were essentials for understanding today’s indigenous rights discourse in Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to generate a discourse over indigenous people’s rights with specific case of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) in Bangladesh to be revisited by the intellectual communities, policy and law makers and human rights activists to uphold the social justice. It was a qualitative study used exhaustive literature reviews along with four key Informant Interviews to recontextualize the findings. A discourse analysis revealed that the existing human rights violations against the ethnic minorities in (CHT) was deeply rooted in the <i>habitus </i>of the society with strong influences by the political cultures, which had naturalized the oppression against them through language (expressed/ unexpressed) under the mantle of nationalism. However, “Diversity” could be an alternative language to slowly diffuse the dominant discriminatory political culture and to promote the rights of all ethnic minorities in Bangladesh.

Indigneous rights discourse in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
aklima jesmin ◽  
Emamul Islam ◽  
Md. Ashrafur Rahman ◽  
Aminul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Minority People

<p><i>Socio-economic and political struggles of the ethnic minority people in Bangladesh resulted from the cumulative injustice and exploitation throughout the history – hence, both the retrospective and prospective analysis were essentials for understanding today’s indigenous rights discourse in Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to generate a discourse over indigenous people’s rights with specific case of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) in Bangladesh to be revisited by the intellectual communities, policy and law makers and human rights activists to uphold the social justice. It was a qualitative study used exhaustive literature reviews along with four key Informant Interviews to recontextualize the findings. A discourse analysis revealed that the existing human rights violations against the ethnic minorities in (CHT) was deeply rooted in the "habitus" of the society with strong influences by the political cultures, which had naturalized the oppression against them through language (expressed/ unexpressed) under the mantle of nationalism. However, “Diversity” could be an alternative language to slowly diffuse the dominant discriminatory political culture and to promote the rights of all ethnic minorities in Bangladesh.</i></p><p><i><br></i></p>

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