United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, para. 6
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Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Environment
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Ethnic minorities
Year
2007
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), A/RES/61/295, PP 6.