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  • International Recognition of Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Control of Development and Domestic Political Mobilisation

    Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran
    Griffith University Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran S.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Indigenous peoples have recently achieved increased recognition of Indigenous rights in international declarations and conventions, and national legislation. This increased recognition does not itself allow Indigenous peoples to achieve one of their central objectives, control over development which affects them or their ancestral lands. State authorities often ignore international legal instruments and domestic legislation in dealing with major resource projects on Indigenous land, and international recognition of Indigenous rights has no binding effect on the private resource corporations that increasingly dominate ...
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    Indigenous peoples have recently achieved increased recognition of Indigenous rights in international declarations and conventions, and national legislation. This increased recognition does not itself allow Indigenous peoples to achieve one of their central objectives, control over development which affects them or their ancestral lands. State authorities often ignore international legal instruments and domestic legislation in dealing with major resource projects on Indigenous land, and international recognition of Indigenous rights has no binding effect on the private resource corporations that increasingly dominate resource exploitation. Given this situation, Indigenous control of development can only be achieved by Indigenous mobilisation in the domestic political sphere, targeting both the state and resource corporations.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume
    47
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2012.731484
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Comparative government and politics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/51330
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