Ongoing obstacles to the full realization of indigenous peoples’ rights; vision for the mandate 2014, para. 35
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- Ongoing discrimination against indigenous peoples has its roots in the perceived superiority of the colonial population and its descendants, perceptions that were historically accompanied by laws and policies aimed at suppressing or eliminating indigenous identity and assimilating indigenous peoples into the dominant culture. In many countries, constitutional provisions and laws contained expressly racist language and barred indigenous peoples from carrying out a range of their own activities, such as performing cultural and religious ceremonies, and from participating in the life of the State, such as through voting or owning land. Some of the most notorious examples of such policies were those that overtly aimed at eliminating or "breeding out" aboriginal identity by removing indigenous children from their families and communities and placing them in non-indigenous environments, and by forbidding them to speak their own languages or practise their cultural traditions.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/27/52, para. 35.
- Paragraph number
- 35
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