scholarly journals Implementation of Indigenous Rights in Russia: Shortcomings and Recent Developments

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Tomaselli ◽  
Anna Koch
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Far East ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
The North ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Umbrella Organization ◽  
The Government

After more than 20 years of active engagement in Indigenous issues, RAIPON, the umbrella organization of the Indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East, was ordered to suspend its activities by the Russian Ministry of Justice in November 2012. Eventually, this order was withdrawn provided that RAIPON changed its statute, which subsequently took place in early 2013. Why such sudden and definitive decisions? Apparently, the measures taken against RAIPON were due to its active engagement to defend Indigenous peoples' rights especially vis-à-vis the Russian extractive industry. A starting point for all possible explanations is thus the existing gap between the legal protection of Indigenous peoples' and its enforcement. The aims of this article are thus to gain a deeper understanding of the legal protection of Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Russian Federation, and to explore the interests and the politics lying behind the government attitude vis-à-vis Indigenous peoples.

Contributory Fault under International Law: A Gateway for Human Rights in ISDS?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farouk El-Hosseny ◽  
Patrick Devine
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Investment Treaty ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Bear Creek ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The intersection between foreign investment and human rights is gaining attention, as is evident from an increasing number of investment treaty awards analysing legal issues relating to human rights. In the recent International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitration of Bear Creek v Peru, Philippe Sands QC posited, in a dissenting opinion, that the investor’s contribution to events—ie protests against its allegedly adverse environmental impact and disregard of indigenous rights, namely resulting from its ‘inability to obtain a “social licence”’—which led to the unlawful expropriation of its investment, was ‘significant and material’. He further noted that the investor’s ‘responsibilities are no less than those of the government’ and found that damages should thus be reduced. Last year, the Netherlands adopted a new model bilateral investment treaty (BIT), which allows tribunals to ‘take into account non-compliance by the investor with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises’ when assessing damages. These recent developments shed light on how states and tribunals, as part of their decision-making process, can take into account human rights in practice, and crucially in respect of damages analyses. By first dissecting the concept of contributory fault, then shedding light on the intersection of investment treaty law and human rights, as elucidated in recent jurisprudence, this article questions whether there now exists a gateway for human rights obligations (soft or hard) in the investment treaty arbitration realm through the concept of contributory fault.

Realising Ainu indigenous rights: a commentary on Hiroshi Maruyama's ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy. Why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’

Polar Record ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohiro Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
United Nations Declaration

ABSTRACTThis commentary reviews Maruyama's article ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy: why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’ (Maruyama 2013a), published in this journal. Maruyama criticises the government for its reluctance to enact a new Ainu law to guarantee indigenous rights, even after Japan's ratification of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). However, in actuality, the government is searching for the foundation of new Ainu policies in the existing legal frameworks and trying to guarantee some elements of indigenous rights. Japan's case suggests the possibility of realising indigenous rights without the enactment of a specific law.

scholarly journals THE EXTREME NORTH AS A GEOPOETIC IMAGE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTH OF YAKUTIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-342
Author(s):  
Zh.V. Burtseva
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Far North ◽  
The North ◽  
Winter Snow ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Extreme North

The starting point for highlighting the Northern text of the literature of Yakutia from the point of view of geographical toponymic characteristics is the concept of “Far North (Arctic)”. The article is devoted to the analysis of this system-forming concept in the literature of the Indigenous peoples of the North of Yakutia, which includes landscape, natural images, signs, symbols of this territory in their generalized integrity (tundra, taiga, sea, rivers, mountains, nomadic paths, winter, snow, cold, nomad, deer, bear and others). The description of the northern territories and images in an artistic interpretation is filled with a distinctive symbolic meaning associated with local mythology, sacred geography. The results of the study show that the concept of “Far North” is not a thematic phenomenon, not a geographical location, but a special attitude. This is a whole picture of the world, preserving national identity in itself, both in form and in content, in value guidelines.

The Dilemma of Indigenous Self-Government in Canada: Indigenous Rights and Canadian Federalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-688
Author(s):  
Richard Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Canadian Federalism ◽  
Sovereign Nations ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty

Canada's constitutional distribution of authority between the provinces and federal government leaves no room for Indigenous self-government, but there are increasingly vocal calls for change. Whether Indigenous peoples are acknowledged as one of Canada's founding nations alongside its English and French settlers, or are recognized as distinctive peoples within its multicultural society, these calls affirm Indigenous peoples as sovereign nations deserving of at least some of the powers that the provinces have. The Constitution Act 1982 provides a different mechanism of legal protection for Indigenous peoples, recognizing and affirming already existing Indigenous rights. Canada's Indigenous rights jurisprudence, however, pulls against the sovereignty that underlies federalism. The courts have understood Indigenous rights such that accessing their protections denies to Indigenous peoples the autonomy to define themselves as member nations of Canada's multicultural society. As a normative point, this paper argues that we should embrace constitutional Indigenous rights as a vehicle for Indigenous sovereignty, because it brings federalism and Indigenous rights together as a theoretically coherent foundation for Indigenous self-government in Canada. As a descriptive point, the paper argues that the jurisprudence itself already contains the resources to support a sovereignty-affirming reading of the Constitution's Indigenous rights provisions.

Indigenous Rights: Recent Developments in International Law

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-310
Author(s):  
Julie Debeljak
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Land Holdings

“Indigenous peoples have been deprived of vast land holdings, and access to life sustaining resources, and they have suffered … activ[e] suppress[ion of] their political and cultural institutions. As a result indigenous people have been crippled economically and socially, their cohesiveness as communities has been damaged or threatened, and the integrity of their cultures has been undermined.”

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM BAGI TANAH ULAYAT MASYARAKAT ADAT KESULTANAN DELI AKIBAT NASIONALISASI NV DELI MAATSCHAPPIJ [Legal Protection of the Communal Land Rights of the Deli Sultanate due to the Nationalization of NV Deli Maatschaapij]

Law Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Jeremy Aidianto Naibaho ◽  
Bambang Daru Nugroho ◽  
Yusuf Saepul Zamil
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Library Research ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Communal Land ◽  
The Government ◽  
Plantation Company ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Impact

<p><em><span class="fontstyle0"><strong>Abstract</strong><br /></span></em></p><p><em><span class="fontstyle1">Nationalization of a Dutch-owned plantation company, NV Deli Maatschappij, was an attempt by the government to improve national economic situation. However, during the process, communal land which was concessioned to the plantation, was also nationalized and not given compensation by the government which resulted the indigenous people of Deli Sultanate losing their customary land. The former plantation land was converted to Cultivation Rights and handed over to the State Plantation Company This problem led to a prolonged conflict over ownership of the former estate. The purpose of this study is to determine the validity of the nationalization process carried out by Indonesian government on the existence of indigenous peoples’ customary land rights and obtain  settlement of customary land rights of indigenous peoples as the impact on nationalization. Furthermore, this research is normative legal research (library research) with a statutory approach (statue approach).<br /></span></em></p><p><span class="fontstyle0"><strong><em>Keywords: Nationalization, Communal Land, Compensation</em></strong><br /></span></p><p><span class="fontstyle3"><br /></span></p><p><span class="fontstyle3"><strong>Abstrak</strong><br /></span></p><p><span class="fontstyle4">Proses nasionalisasi Perusahaan Perkebunan milik Belanda, yaitu NV Deli </span><span class="fontstyle1">Maatschappij </span><span class="fontstyle4">adalah upaya pemerintah untuk memperbaiki perekonomian Negara. Namun dalam pelaksanaannya tanah ulayat yang dikonsesikan kepada perkebunan juga ikut ternasionalisasi dan tidak diberikan ganti kerugian oleh pemerintah yang berakibat Masyarakat Adat Kesultanan Deli kehilangan tanah ulayatnya. Tanah bekas perkebunan diubah menjadi Hak Guna Usaha dan diserahkan kepada Perusahaan Perkebunan Negara. Hal ini menimbulkan<br />konflik berkepanjangan tentang kepemilikan tanah bekas perkebunan tersebut. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian hukum normatif (</span><em><span class="fontstyle1">library research</span></em><span class="fontstyle4">) dengan pendekatan undang-undang (</span><em><span class="fontstyle1">statue approach</span></em><span class="fontstyle4">). Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menilai keabsahan proses nasionalisasi yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah Indonesia terhadap eksistensi hak ulayat Masyarakat Adat dan memperoleh penyelesaian sengketa tanah ulayat Masyarakat Adat sebagai dampak atas<br />nasionalisasi.<br /></span></p><p><strong><span class="fontstyle3">Kata Kunci: Nasionalisasi, Tanah Ulayat, Ganti Rugi</span> </strong></p>

scholarly journals Between “own” and “alien”: linguistic and artistic realities, problems and perspectives of the literatures of the indigenous peoples of the North and the Far East

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 246-255
Author(s):  
Aleksei A. Arzamazov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Far East ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The North ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Individual

The article discusses linguistic and artistic realities, problems and perspectives of the literatures of the indigenous peoples of the North and the Far East. The author fixes the widespread writing of works in Russian, comprehends the reasons for the linguistic transition, raises the question of the theoretical and substantive expansion of the concept of “national literature”, emphasizes the importance of the individual author's ethnocultural component. The author considers as a landmark projection of the development of “minority” national literatures the method of including elements of the “native” language in a Russian-language poem, an appeal to the topic “native language”, the experience of accidentally recognizing one's own in the sounds of a genetically non-native language. Special attention is paid to the problem of literary translation into Russian, some scenarios of distortion of texts in translations and reduction precedents of important mythological contexts are presented. The conclusions obtained during the analysis of a large corpus of poetic texts from the Nenets, Dolgan, Even, Chukchi, Koryak, Nanai literatures can be of significant analytical interest in a comparative aspect.

scholarly journals Section 35 Legal Framework: Implications for Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Patrick Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Program Evaluations ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relationship Of

Developments in Canada’s constitutional and legal framework since 1982 set the stage for the current Liberal government’s nation to nation policy which recognizes Indigenous rights and seeks to build a relationship of respect and partnership through reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. These developments have important implications for those engaged in policy and program evaluations who are now called upon - not only by their own professional ethics but by the legal principles flowing from section 35 - to reimagine their approach and work as partners with Indigenous nations based on the recognition of Indigenous rights, reconciliation and the Crown’s duty to act honourably in all of its dealings with Indigenous peoples. There are no off the shelf answers for how this can be done. Evaluations professionals will need to be guided by these key legal principles and the progressive view set out in the Liberal government’s Principles Respecting the Government of Canada’s Nation to Nation Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.  

scholarly journals HAK KOMUNAL ATAS TANAH SEBAGAI HAK ATAS TANAH DESA PAKRAMAN DI BALI

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Made Oka Cahyadi Wiguna
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Law System ◽  
Village Leader ◽  
Communal Land ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

The government has indeed provided legal protection and certainty to indigenous peoples regarding their ulayat lands, through a Ministerial Regulation. However, it needs to be studied more deeply about the concept of communal rights to land and Pakraman village as the subject of communal rights holders on land. Communal rights to land are conceptualized as models of land rights that have just been raised in the national land law system. The consequence is that indigenous and tribal peoples as communal rights holders are authorized to use and benefit from their communal land. Pakraman village qualifies as a subject of communal rights to land because Pakraman village in Bali is classified into the community of the community, has a system of customary government referred to as the traditional prajuru led by a customary village leader. Then Pakraman village has a legal area called the Palemahan Pakraman village. As an instrument that regulates the life and social interaction of the community, awig-awig is the customary law of the community in a Pakraman village in Bali.

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