Reconciling Indigenous Peoples’ Individual and Collective Rights. Participation, Prior Consultation and Self-Determination in Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alexandra Tomaselli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Collective Rights

scholarly journals Eichler, Jessika. 2019. Reconciling indigenous peoples’ individual and collective rights: participation, prior consultation and selfdetermination in Latin America. New York: Routledge. 196 p.

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Amelia Alva-Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Las Mujeres

El libro de Eichler reflexiona profundamente sobre la relación entre los derechos colectivos de los pueblos indígenas y los derechos individuales de sus miembros, particularmente, de aquellos que conforman los sub-grupos minoritarios como son las mujeres, niños y ancianos, a quienes se les ha otorgado protección especial en el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos. Complementariamente a esta reflexión teórica, se presenta un estudio empírico de Bolivia, permitiendo a la autora a ofrecer un marco reconciliatorio de los derechos colectivos e individuales necesario para cambiar la perspectiva del ejercicio de los derechos de participación, consulta y auto determinación de los pueblos indígenas.

scholarly journals Law of Ukraine «On Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine»: declaration of rights and their further implementation»

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
Anton Opanasenko
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
State Power ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

Keywords: Indigenous peoples, Crimean Tatars, Karaites, Krymchaks, Gagauzpeople, representation, legal status, self-determination, language, culture, traditions,people, identity The article analyses indetail the legal status and certain types of rights as signed to indigenous peoples ofUkraine under the recently adopted Law of Ukraine «On Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine». The criteria of belonging of separate communities to the indigenous peoplesof Ukraine, features of realization by these peoples of their collective rights, and alsorealization by separate representatives of indigenous peoples of their individualrights in the corresponding spheres are defined. The study also defines the characteristicsof the indigenous people, which distinguish this concept from other related concepts,in particular, the concept of national minority. Also, the article, based on theaforementioned Law, determines why only the indigenous peoples of Crimea:Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks can be recognized as indigenous peoples ofUkraine, in contrast to the Gagauz people, who currently in Ukraine’s Odessa region.The study also highlights the peculiarities of the representation of indigenous peoplesof Ukraine at the local, national and international levels. A detailed interpretation ofthe provisions of the Law clarifies its role and significance, as well as prospects for theimplementation of its provisions in the future. The specifics of the representation ofindigenous peoples in Ukraine have been studied, in particular through the functioningof separate representative bodies of indigenous peoples, as well as the representationof the aforementioned communities within public authorities and local governments.The process and peculiarities of interaction of the representative bodies of theindigenous peoples of Ukraine with the bodies of state power and local self-governmentin Ukraine are analysed, along with the specifics of the legal status of such bodiesof the indigenous peoples. The publication proves the need for further the legislativeprocess to implement the requirements of the law, as well as the development ofdetailed and transparent mechanisms for such implementation.

scholarly journals Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Joel E. Correia ◽  
Cheryl McEwan ◽  
Joe Bryan ◽  
Penelope Anthias
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Association ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Review Symposium ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Chaco Region ◽  
Hydrocarbon Extraction

This book review symposium critically evaluates Penelope Anthias’ recent text Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press 2018). Through deep ethnographic attention, Anthias’ text evaluates Indigenous struggles for territory in the context of “post-neoliberal” Bolivia under the Evo Morales administration, showing the variegated and nuanced politics of autonomy in an era of hydrocarbon extraction and increasingly contradictory state-Indigenous relations. The text examines the “limits” of rights and state-led territorial titling processes to radically challenge the racialized extractive geographies that shape the Bolivian Chaco region. In so doing, Anthias’ ethnography provides a rich analysis of how Guaraní Indigenous peoples are reshaping their relations with non-Indigenous landowners and the hydrocarbon industry to advance new forms of territorial autonomy and self-determination with significant ramifications on Indigenous studies in Latin America. This book review symposium draws from a session at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference, featuring two leading geographers who share their critical readings of Limits to Decolonization with a conclusion by Anthias that responds to the written reviews.

Anthropology and Law in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Rachel Sieder
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Collective Rights

As a researcher working within the field of collaborative or ‘engaged’ legal and political anthropology in Latin America, law does very much shape my research agenda and that of most of my colleagues. I would also contend that anthropology does impact law throughout the region, although to a much lesser extent. This is most evident in the legalisation, judicialisation and juridification of indigenous peoples’ collective rights to autonomy and territory in recent decades. Yet, the influence of anthropology on legal adjudication in the region is not only limited to issues pertaining to indigenous peoples: engaged applied ethnographic research is playing an increasingly important role in revealing to legal practitioners and courts the effects of human rights violations in specific contexts, and victims’ perceptions of the continuums of violence to which they are subjected.

The International Court of Justice and Peoples

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Timo Koivurova
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
The Icj ◽  
The Right

AbstractThe article examines how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has dealt with the concept of peoples and peoples' rights in its jurisprudence. Most prominent has been the Court's role with respect to the right of self-determination and it is this issue that forms the core of the article. A second important question dealt with is the role of indigenous peoples in ICJ case practice, as the struggle by those peoples to gain collective rights is a recent development in international law. Drawing on this analysis, the discussion proceeds to consider the role that the ICJ has played in the development of the rights of peoples in general and what its future role might be in this sphere of international law. The article also examines the way in which the Court has allowed peoples to participate in its proceedings and whether and how its treatment of peoples' rights has strengthened the general foundations of international law.

scholarly journals Alcance de los derechos colectivos de los pueblos indígenas en América Latina/ Scope of the collective rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 276-292
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Indigenous Participation ◽  
America Latina ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Resumen El artículo analiza el alcance de los derechos colectivos de los pueblos indígenas en América Latina, desde el acercamiento etnográfico a los casos de ejecución de los proyectos de desarrollo, orientados a mitigar los impactos del cambio climático en las comunidades indígenas de Shiña, Ecuador y Pumatalla, Perú. El estudio considera que el Convenio 169 de la OIT y la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas constituyen en principios que garantizan la superación del Estado monocultural, excluyente, y reconocen la necesidad de participación de los indígenas en el diseño y en la ejecución de los proyectos de desarrollo. El análisis concluye que la celebración del bicentenario de independencia en Perú y Ecuador es una oportunidad para repensar en Estados que superen el pasado colonial. Se demuestra que hay esfuerzos por responder a las demandas de los pueblos indígenas, en cuanto que los Estados asumen los convenios internacionales sobre derechos colectivos concernientes a estos pueblos. Hay desarrollo y aceptación considerable de estos derechos en la legislación, pero en la práctica, son escasamente asumidos por los dos Estados, por lo que continua la discriminación y no se resuelven los diversos problemas que afecta a los indígenas. Abstract The article analyzes the scope of the collective rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America, from the ethnographic approach to the cases of execution of development projects, aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change on the indigenous communities of Shiña, Ecuador and Pumatalla, Peru. The study considers that ILO Convention 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples constitute principles that guarantee the overcoming of the monocultural, exclusive State, and recognize the need for indigenous participation in the design and in the execution of development projects. The analysis concludes that the celebration of the bicentennial of independence in Peru and Ecuador is an opportunity to rethink in States that overcome the colonial past. It is shown that there are efforts to respond to the demands of indigenous peoples, inasmuch as the States assume international conventions on collective rights concerning these peoples. There is considerable development and acceptance of these rights in the legislation, but in practice, they are scarcely assumed by the two States, so discrimination continues and the various problems that affect indigenous people are not resolved.

scholarly journals Neo-extractivist controversies in Bolivia: indigenous perspectives on global norms

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
Jessika Eichler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Increasing Demand

AbstractEver since Evo Morales Ayma became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006 and the promulgation of a human-rights-enhancing Constitution (2009) thereafter, indigenous peoples’ rights were gradually recognised. Yet, with the increasing demand for natural resources, indigenous communities have been adversely affected by the state's neo-extractivist policies. While global indigenous rights norms protect their fundamental rights, legal-implementation processes in the country's lowlands reveal dilemmas in terms of the value of laws in practice as well as its reinterpretation on the ground. Namely, in the communities, different positions and camps have emerged in terms of the role and functions of participatory rights. Despite the potential of the latter in strengthening collective-rights regimes and self-determination, community leaders, advisers and other members report how such processes fracture and weaken decision-making mechanisms and human rights claims.

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