Minorities and Indigenous

Question 1

In what Conference were drafted several treaties to protect minorities?

Answer 1

Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Question 2

In what article of the ICCPR are minorities explained?

Answer 2

Article 27

Question 3

Give another declaration eg.

Answer 3

declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic religious and linguistic minorities (1992)

Question 4

what are other types of minorities?

Answer 4

gender
disability
sexual orientation

Question 5

explain the rights of minorities

Answer 5

declaration on minority rights constitutes the guidelines for domestic law (constitutional and statutory) and its application (badinter commission)

Question 6

explain exercising the rights of minorities

Answer 6

• in the case law there are discrepancies
  Lovelace vs. Canada
  Kitok vs. Sweden
• usually exercised as individuals

Question 7

explain Indigenous people rights

Answer 7

• priority in time (occupation and use of territory)
• the voluntary perpetuation of cultural distinctiveness, which may include aspects of language, social organization, religion, and spiritual values, laws, and institutions
• self-identification
• experience of subjugation, marginalization, dispossession, exclusion,n or discrimination, whether or not these conditions persist

Question 8

Explain the UN working group in the Indigenous population

Answer 8

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- has been extremely influential in domestic law
- the IACtHR has a rich tradition of ruling Indigenous rights cases
- most of the American jurisdictions have rulings involving Indigenous rights

Question 9

explain the prior consultation right

Answer 9

free
prior
informed
(key in Indigenous rights) which is the correct destination for the use of the land