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International Law and the Rights of Minorities. By Patrick Thornberry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 443. Indexes. $79.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 June 27, 1989 (entered into force Sept. 5, 1991). A draft of the text, however, is included as an appendix.
2 June 29, 1990, reprinted in 29 ILM 1305 (1990).
3 GA Res. 47/135 (Dec. 18, 1992), reprinted in 32 ILM 911 (1993).
4 Thornberry also incorrectly states that the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities “has produced” a draft declaration on indigenous rights “to be adopted by the General Assembly in 1992” (p. 377). In fact, it is anticipated that such a declaration will be adopted by the working group at its July 1993 session; its fate thereafter is uncertain.
5 Nevertheless, 115 countries were bound by the Covenant as of Jan. 31, 1993.
6 Cf. pp. 214–18, a discussion of self-determination in the Covenants.