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Viewing articles tagged 'self determination'
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What the Dega ask for
Three aims, rooted in FULRO’s first declarations of 1964 and 1965 and set down in this form before the United Nations in 1993, pursued since October 1992 by peaceful means only. Beneath them, the rights the world now recognizes for indigenous peoples, every one of which has been taken from us; and at the end, four things a government that wanted...
Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word matters
International law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights. One protects minorities. The other protects indigenous peoples, and it goes much further: it deals in land, consent and a people’s own institutions, not only in tolerance. Which one applies to the Dega turns on a single contested word. Vietnam says it has no indigenous peopl...
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