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Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Regional Studies. Mar2023, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p434-446. 13p. 1 Diagram, 1 Chart.
Abstract: This study investigates the socio-geographic assertions of regional resource rights by indigenous people in a demarcated indigenous region in north-east India. It analyses local media content to gain insights into the process of discursive (de)legitima...
Indigenous storytelling and admissibility in common law courts: Developing the protocols for the reception theory of evidence.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Journal of Evidence & Proof. Apr2023, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p143-166. 24p.
Abstract: The claims for the restitution of legal estate by the Indigenous peoples are often without the benefit of a written agreement when they have to prove a spatial and temporal connection with ancestral lands. The witness testimony from a storyteller who i...
From 'ILCs' to 'IPLCs': A Victory for Indigenous Peoples' Rights Advocacy Under the Convention on Biological Diversity?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of Environmental Law; Jul2023, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p275-284, 10p
Abstract: Copyright of Journal of Environmental Law is the property of Oxford University Press / USA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users ...
Sources of Indigenous Fijian 'law': village mores versus town-based criminal laws.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Griffith Law Review. Dec2022, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p465-484. 20p. 1 Chart.
Abstract: The aim of this article is to reflect on oral history interview data provided by an ex-soccer star who played for Fiji and in what is now the Fiji Premier League, and reconcile his criminal past (according to town-based criminal laws) with his current ...
Legal Person- or Agenthood of Artificial Intelligence Technologies.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum. Autumn2020, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p73-92. 20p.
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly. There are technologies available that fulfil several tasks better than humans can and even behave like humans to some extent. Thus, the situation prompts the question whether AI should be granted lega...
'We Are All Here to Stay' : Citizenship, Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: In 2007, 144 UN member states voted to adopt a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US were the only members to vote against it. Each eventually changed its position. This book explains why and examine...
Transitional Injustice For Indigenous Peoples From Brazil.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Direito e Práxis. 2019, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p129-169. 41p.
Abstract: O artigo tematiza reparações às violações de direitos humanos dos povos indígenas na ditadura brasileira, no período de 1946 a 1988, lapso temporal da Lei da Anistia (Lei n° 6.683, de 28 de agosto de 1979) e utilizada pela Comissão Nacional da Verdade....
RAPA NUI.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Indigenous World. 2019, p206-211. 6p.
Abstract: The article examines major issues that affected the lives of indigenous peoples in Rapa Nui in 2018. They include the refusal to recognize ancestral property rights, the failure to protect the cultural integrity and archaeological heritage of the Rapa ...
Theft Is Property! : Dispossession and Critical Theory
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Drawing on Indigenous peoples'struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of govern...
Expoliación, malos tratos y enfermedades: aspectos problemáticos que condujeron a la regulación del trabajo en las Leyes de Indias.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Advocatus. 2019, Vol. 16 Issue 33, p105-121. 17p.
Abstract: En este artículo se realiza una aproximación al ordenamiento jurídico que reguló las relaciones laborales en la época colonial. Su estructura tiene el siguiente hilo conductor: debate sobre la denominada leyenda negra, en el que se elucidan las consecu...