Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples 2017, para. 35
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A positive trend has developed during the past 10 years with the use of the Declaration as a source of law in regional and national courts. Gradually, the Declaration is being incorporated into jurisprudence and cited as an authoritative legal source in the interpretation of the content of indigenous rights. Some Constitutional and Supreme Courts have also explicitly recognized the Declaration in developing jurisprudence at the domestic level.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples