Saturday, October 13, 2007
Human Rights Regime
As indigenous leaders meet in Bolivia to discuss how to get member states of the UN to live up to the recent Declaration on Indigenous Rights, Rudolph Ryser provides the historical background to this perhaps over-celebrated document. As things inevitably heat up in international negotiation and conflict related to this long overdue development in the global human rights regime, it's helpful to know both how we got here, as well as what it really means.
