Strengthening commitment to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its implementation 2013, para. 70
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- While the Declaration does articulate standards that are specific to indigenous peoples, it does not fundamentally create for indigenous peoples new substantive rights that others do not enjoy, as pointed out previously by the Special Rapporteur (A/64/338, para. 47). Rather, it recognizes for them the human rights that they should have enjoyed all along as part of the human family, contextualizes those rights in the light of their particular circumstances and characteristics, in particular their communal bonds, and promotes measures to remedy the rights' historical and systemic violation. The interconnectedness of all human rights and their universality, along with their propensity to give rise to context-specific prescriptions, is illustrated by the Declaration's articulation of norms that are, at the same time, grounded in universal human rights but specific to indigenous peoples. The interrelationships between universal rights of equality, self-determination, cultural integrity, property, development, and social and economic welfare, understood in the specific context of indigenous peoples, define a range of specific indigenous peoples' rights that are articulated in the Declaration.
- 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
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/317, para. 70.
- Paragraph number
- 70
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