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United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities: Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Howard R. Berman
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International Legal Materials , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , March 1995 , pp. 541 - 555
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Copyright ©American Society of International Law 1995

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[Reproduced from United Nations Document E/CN.4/1995/2;E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/56, October 28,1994, pp. 105-15. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Howard R. Berman, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law and Chair, ASIL Interest Group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

[United Nations Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1995/32, adopted March 3, 1995, Establishing a Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights to Elaborate a Draft United Nations Declaration as discussed in UNGA Resolution 49/214, of December 23, 1994, can be found at 34 I.L.M. 535 (1995).

[The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, done at Strasbourg, February 1, 1995, appears at 34 I.L.M. 351 (1995).]

References

1 Resolution 1994/45, Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 46th Session, 1994. The Sub-Commission is an expertbody within the human rights system made up of specialists elected in their personal capacity by the Commission on Human Rights.

2 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights decided on March 3, 1995, subject to ECOSOC approval, to establish an intergovernmental working group (WG) for that purpose. See 34 I.L.M. 535 (1995).

3 The WGIP is made up of five expert members of the Sub-Commission on the basis of the regional groupings of the UN.

4 “Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations on Its Twelfth Session,” UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/30 (1994).