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    Indigenous peoples' access to justice, including truth and reconciliation processes / Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.)

    • Title:Indigenous peoples' access to justice, including truth and reconciliation processes / Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.)
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Littlechild, Wilton, 1944- editor.
      Stamatopoulou, Elsa, 1951- editor.
      Xwi7xwa Collection
      Columbia University. Center for the Study of Human Rights, issuing body.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, 2014.
    • Holdings

       
    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools.
    • Library of Congress Subjects:United Nations. General Assembly. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
      Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.
      Human rights.
      Reconciliation.
    • Description:xiii, 420 pages ; 23 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9780615967677
      0615967671
    • Contents:Foreward / by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Elazar Barkan
      Introduction
      Part I Normative frameworks
      1. Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and other rights related to access to justice / Dalee Sambo Dorough
      2. Normative directions / Alexandra Xanthaki
      3. The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for access to justice, redress, restitution and non-recurrence regarding violations of rights affirmed in treaties between Indigenous nations and states / Andrea Carmen on behalf of the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
      Part II Geographical perspectives
      4. Access to justice in Australia- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' experience / National Congress of Australia's First Peoples- Tammy Solonec and Katie Kiss
      5. The issues of the criminal justice system and of resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Valmaine Toki
      6. Access to justice for Indigenous peoples in Africa / Laura A. Young and Abraham Korir Sing'Oei
      7. Empowering Indigenous peoples to claim their rights before national courts, an experience from Guatemala / Antonio M. Cisneros de Alencar
      Part III Truth, justice and reconciliation
      8. The truth and reconciliation commission of Canada / Marie Wilson
      9. The Maine Wabanaki-state child welfate truth and reconciliation commission: perceptions and understandings / Bennett Collins, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy and Alison Watson
      10. Impossible memory and post-colonial silences: a critical view of the historical clarification commission (CEH) or truth commission in Guatemala / Marcia Esparza
      11. Challenges of truth commissions to deal with injustice against Indigenous peoples / M. Florencia Librizzi
      12. The challenge of time and responses of international human rights law / Elsa Stamatopoulou
      13. Indigenous self-determination and political rights: practical recommendations for truth commissions / Paige Arthur
      14. A human rights-based approach to truth and reconciliation / Nekane Lavin
      Part IV Who has been left out?
      15. Indigenous children and youth: the case of Marae courts in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Valmaine Toki
      16. American Indian boarding schools in the United States: a brief history and legacy / Denise K. Lajimodiere
      17. The case of boarding schools in the United States of America / Denise Lajimodiere and Andrea Carmen on behalf of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and the International Indian Treaty Council
      18. Case studies in Asia regarding Indigenous women, development and access to justice / Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact
      19. Access to justice for Indigenous persons with disabilities: key issues and opportunities / Carol A. Pollack
      Part V Futures for Indigenous justice
      20. Dispute resolution: restorative justice under Native customary justice in Malaysia / Ramy Bulan
      21. Indigenous approaches to justice in the state court system / Erika Sasson
      22. Guatemala: today for the first time in 500 years we have the opportunity to put perpetrators of genocide on trial / Center for Legal Action in Human Rights (CALDH)
      23. The international criminal court and Indigenous peoples: opportunities and limitations / John Washburn
      24. Invisible law, visible / Kai Landow
      25. Introducing the living convention and a landscape approach to legal empowerment / Harry Jonas, Holly Jonas and Jael Eli Makagon
      Appendix Notes on contributors.
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