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Title Indigenous peoples, the United Nations and human rights / editor Sarah Pritchard
Published London : Zed Books ; Leichhardt, NSW, Australia : Federation Press, 1998
Leichhardt, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 1998

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Description xi, 243 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Individual complaints : historical perspectives and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Philip Alston -- Individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / Elizabeth Evatt -- Individual communications : the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination / Michael O'Flaherty -- Periodic reporting : the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Philip Alston
Periodic reporting : the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women / Elizabeth Evatt -- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination : non-governmental input and the early warning and urgent procedure / Michael O'Flaherty -- Substantive provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination / Michael O'Flaherty -- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and indigenous peoples / Sarah Pritchard
The significance of international law / Sarah Pritchard -- Linking international standards with contemporary concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / Mick Dodson -- The UN Charter-based human rights system : an overview / Garth Nettheim -- Working Group on Indigenous Populations : mandate, standard-setting activities and future perspectives / Sarah Pritchard -- The UN treaty-based human rights system : an overview / Hilary Charlesworth -- Individual complaints : an overview and admissibility requirements / Hilary Charlesworth
Summary Provides articles on recent developments in Indigenous rights
Analysis Aborigines
Australia overseas comparisons
Case studies
Discrimination
Federal issue
Human rights
Indigenous populations
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
International law
Racism
United Nations
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 203-208
Subject United Nations -- History.
United Nations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Human rights.
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Author Pritchard, Sarah.
LC no. 98198160
ISBN 1856495949
1862872597