United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, para. 1
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Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
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Topic(s)
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Ethnic minorities
Year
2007
Paragraph type
Article
Reference
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), A/RES/61/295, Article 31, 1.