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20.500.12592/3pt2c4

R E S O U R C E S

10 Nov 2004

The norms in question include this? Is it silent or does it impose limits upon the the right not to be deprived of the means of extent to which the state, may authorize projects in subsistence, the right to equal benefit of the law, the the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples? Does right to the use and enjoyment of property and the it require that the state obtain the consent of affected. [...] Article 21(1) provides of Queensland, (4) the decisions of UN Human Rights that “Everyone has the right to the use and enjoyment of Committee under Article 27 of the International Covenant his property.” on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and (5) the practice of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial The Awas Tingni originally presented its petition to the Discrimination under CERD. [...] These efforts include the ILO’s Convention 169,10 “property” rather than “private property” and concluded that the efforts to develop a Declaration of the Rights of “the Convention protects the right to property in a sense Indigenous Peoples within the UN Human Rights which includes, among others, the rights of members of the Commission and its working groups,11 and efforts within the indigenous c. [...] The Commission reasoned that unlike the land acting with its acquiescence or its tolerance, rights of other Belizeans the nature of the interest of the to affect the existence, value, use or Maya people in their lands was uncertain21 and cannot be enjoyment of the property located in the “defined exclusively by entitlements within a state’s formal geographical area where the members of the legal s. [...] The Committee The Committee routinely comments on the land and emphasized that the quarrying activities were limited, that resource rights of Indigenous Peoples as part of summative the herders had been consulted about the decision, that the assessments of the regular state reports.

Authors

Janice Glaister

Pages
8
Published in
Canada