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Indigenous Peoples in International Law - JURD7613

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS8413

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The past three decades have seen the worlds more than 300 million indigenous people make significant advances in international law with the recognition of Indigenous rights through current and newly established mechanisms that advance the development of norms relating to Indigenous rights. The international system has responded to the increased awareness of the human rights problems Indigenous peoples face and as a result, discernible trends and normative developments have emerged at the international level relating to Indigenous peoples. This course synthesises the contemporary international law pertaining to in particular the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:

Appreciate the history of Indigenous peoples engagement in international law
Have a deeper understanding of the historical consequences of dispossession of Indigenous peoples and how it has manifested in contemporary human rights issues.
Specialised knowledge in the normative framework in international law pertaining to Indigenous peoples
A deeper understanding of the common problems facing the worlds' 300 million Indigenous peoples that dominate international concern and inform the normative framework

Main Topics

Who are ips? What is the right to self-determination?
UN human rights treaty body jurisprudence
United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
World Bank, IMF, MNCs and economic development
WTO: TRIPS, GASCM and FTAs
Indigenous Knowledge: WIPO, CBD, Climate change
ILO
OAS