Full Description
Self-Determination as Voice addresses the relationship between Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance and the law of self-determination. Many states and international organizations have put in place institutional mechanisms for the express purpose of including Indigenous representatives in international policy-making and decision-making processes, as well as in the negotiation and drafting of international legal instruments. Indigenous peoples' rights have a higher profile in the UN system than ever before. This book argues that the establishment and use of mechanisms and policies to enable a certain level of Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance has become a widespread practice, and perhaps even one that is accepted as law. In theory, the law of self-determination supports this move, and it is arguably emerging as a rule of customary international law. However, ultimately the achievement of the ideal of full and effective participation, in a manner that would fulfil Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, remains deferred.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Participation in international governance and the logic of self-determination; 2. Finding support for indigenous peoples' participation in the sources of international Law; 3. The proliferation of indigenous peoples' participation, 1982-2007; 4. Emerging legal status? Participation of indigenous peoples, 2007-2022; 5. Conclusion: new epoch, old stones; Bibliography; International documents; Index.
