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General Resources for Global Indigenous Law
- Indigenous Law Journal
- Ancient Customs, Modern Dilemmas: Indigenous Peoples and the Law. David Bogen
Law Gateways
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Official Gazettes
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Intergovernmental Congresses & Conferences
- 2016 Global Indigenous Women’s Conference. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance and Indigenous Conference Services (Australia)
- 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference. Center on Globalization, Law & Society, University of California at Irvine School of Law & Office of Inclusive Excellence, ADVANCE Program for Equity & Diversity, UC Irvine
- 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. United Nations UN
- 2014 World Indigenous Legal Conference. Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland ILAQ
- 2012 World Indigenous Lawyers Conference. Te Hunga Roia Māori o Aotearoa (Maori Law Society)
Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)
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Global Indigenous Organizations
- Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias AMARC
- Center for the Support of Native Lands
- Mapping Indigenous Lands: a practical guidebook, 2008. Mac Chapin, Bill Threlkeld
- Indigenous Landscapes: a study in ethnocartography, 2001. Mac Chapin, Bill Threlkeld
- Center for the Support of Native Lands (& Indigenous Landscapes), 2006. Aboriginal Mapping Network
- Cultural Survival
- Earth Rights International
- Forest Peoples Programme FPP
- Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas FIMI
- Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Groupe International de Travail pour les Peuples Autochtones GITPA
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs IWGIA
- Indigenous World 2016. Diana Vinding & Cæcilie Mikkelsen (editors)
- El Mundo Indígena 2015. Cæcilie Mikkelsen
- Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge ICIK
- International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests IAITPTF/La Alianza Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales de Bosques Tropicales
- International Indian Treaty Council
- International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change IIFPCC/Foro Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas sobre Cambio Climático
- International Labor Organization ILO
- Indigenous and Tribal Peoples/Pueblos indígenas y tribales/Peuples indigènes et tribaux
- C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
- Alianzas entre sindicatos y pueblos indígenas: experiencias en América Latina, 2015
- Un largo camino hacia el reconocimiento de derechos indígenas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 2010. Juan Manuel Harguindeguy
- Minority Rights Group
- TEBTEBBA
- United Nations
- Indigenous Peoples at the UN
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (multilingual), 2007
- Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples with reference guide, 2012
- Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Handbook for Parliamentarians, 2014
- Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas explicados para todas y para todos: La Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y su relación con normas fundamentales del derecho internacional, 2008. Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia UNICEF Argentina
- World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2014
- List of Human Rights Issues--Indigenous Peoples. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR, United Nations Development Programme UNDP
- Compilación de observaciones finales del Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales sobre países de América Latina y el Caribe (1989-2004). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR, United Nations Development Programme UNDP
- Division for Social Policy and Development--Indigenous Peoples
- United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership. International Labour Organization ILO, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR, the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme UNDP
- Atlas sociolingüístico de Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina Fichas nacionales tomo I, 2009. UNICEF, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo AECID, Fundación para la Educación en Contextos de Multilingüismo y Pluriculturalidad FUNPROEIB Andes
- Atlas sociolingüístico de Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina Fichas nacionales tomo II, 2009. UNICEF, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo AECID, Fundación para la Educación en Contextos de Multilingüismo y Pluriculturalidad FUNPROEIB Andes
- Atlas sociolingüístico de pueblos indígenas en América Latina blog, 2010. UNICEF, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo AECID, Fundación para la Educación en Contextos de Multilingüismo y Pluriculturalidad FUNPROEIB Andes
- Atlas sociolingüístico de pueblos indígenas en América Latina en DVD. UNICEF, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo AECID, Fundación para la Educación en Contextos de Multilingüismo y Pluriculturalidad FUNPROEIB Andes
- VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe. Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (ONU) & UNICEF para América Latina y el Caribe & UNICEF Argentina
- Mujeres indígenas y justicia ancestral, 2009. Miriam Lang, Anna Kucia, UNIFEM
- United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples Network UNPFIP
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- Indigenous Peoples and UNESCO
- Educación en la diversidad: experiencias y desafíos en la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe, 2004. Ignacio Hernaiz (organizer), International Institute for Educational Planning, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO
- Agua y Cultura. Programa Hidrológico Internacional, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO
- Equator Intiative. United Nations Development Programme UNDP
- World Network of Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Land and Sea Managers WIN
- Indigenous Peoples’ Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources, Final Report 2004. Special Rapporteur Erica-Irene A. Daes, Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Commission of Human Rights, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
- Microempresas Asociativas Integradas por Campesinos Marginados en América Central. Aspectos Jurídicos e Institucionales, 1994. Beatriz B. Galán, Food and Agriculture Organization FAO United Nations UN
- Indigenous Issues: Quick Guide. Dag Hammarskjöld Library Research Guides
- Archives of Indigenous Peoples Day: A Documentary History of the Origin and Development of Indigenous Peoples Day. John Curl
- International Decades of the World's Indigenous People/Decenios Internacionales de las Poblaciones Indígenas del Mundo
- Partnership in Action? Indigenous Political Mobilization and Co-optation During the First UN Indigenous Decade (1995-2004), 2007. Jeff Corntassel, Human Rights Quarterly 29 (2007) 167-166
- Diagnóstico sobre la situación de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas en América Central tomo I, 2012. Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos OACNUDH
- Diagnóstico sobre la situación de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas en América Central tomo II, 2012. Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos OACNUDH
- Via Campesina
- World Bank
- Indigenous Peoples
- Operational Policies 4.10(4)—Indigenous Peoples/Política Operativa 4.10(4)—Pueblos Indígenas, 2005
- Review and Update of the World Bank Safeguard Policies
- World Bank Environmental and Social Framework: Setting Standards for Sustainable Development, second draft for consultation, 2015
- World Bank Environmental and Social Framework: Setting Standards for Sustainable Development, first draft for consultation, 2014
- Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century/Latinoamérica indígena en el siglo XXI, 2016
- The World Bank and the Internationalization of Indigenous Rights Norms, 2005. Galit A. Sarfaty, Yale Law Journal
- Territorial Restructuring and the Grounding of Agrarian Reform: Indigenous Communities, Gold Mining and the World Bank, 2008. Eric Holt-Giménez, Transnational Institute, 11.11.11
- World Council of Indigenous Peoples (1975-1997)
- Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas ante los quinientos años. Consejo Mundial de Pueblos indígenas/World Council of Indigenous Peoples
- World Conservation Union IUCN
- Respecting, recognizing and supporting Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas, 2012
- WCC-2012-Res-007-EN Establishing an Indigenous Peoples’ Organization IPO membership and voting category in IUCN/WCC-2012-Res-007-SP Establecimiento de una categoría de Miembro de la UICN con derecho a voto para las Organizaciones de Pueblos Indígenas OPI/WCC-2012-Res-007-FR Création au sein de l’UICN d’une catégorie de Membres avec droit de vote pour les Organisations de Peuples Autochtones OPA
- The Durban Accord from the World Parks Congress, 2013
Laws & Treaties
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (multilingual), 2007. United Nations UN
- C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). International Labor Organization ILO
Law Reports
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Directories
- Indigenous Climate Portal/ Indigenous Peoples’ Climate Change Portal
- Enlaces con Organizaciones Indígenas e Instituciones de Apoyo
- Native Web/Law Resources Directory
Research Guides
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The rights of indigenous peoples in international law: An annotated bibliography, 1985. B. K Roy, D. K. Miller, University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre
Legal Education
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Indigenous Law Societies
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Institutes & Academies
- Center for the World Indigenous Studies
- Indigneous People's Centre for Documentation, Research and Information DOCIP/Centro de Documentación, Investigación e Información de los pueblos indígenas/Centre de documentation, de recherche et d’information des peuples autochtones/Исследовательско-Информационный Центр Документации Коренных Народов
History
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Killing the policy to save the child: comparing the historical removal of indigenous children in Australia to the United States and how the countries can learn from each other, 2016. Drew Pollom, American Indian Law Journal
Conflict of laws including plurality of laws conflict, multiculturalism, plurinationalism
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Land Law
Economic Law
- The Double Life of International Law: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries, 2016. Harvard Law Review
- Report from the conference 2003 Indigenous Rights: Focus on the UN system. Cases from Asia. Fourth Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples
Social Services
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Public Health
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Environmental Law
- Environmental Justice Atlas. Leah Temper, Daniela del Bene, & Joan Martinez Alier, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- The Double Life of International Law: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries, 2016. Harvard Law Review
- Akwé: Kon: Voluntary guidelines for the conduct of cultural, environmental and social impact assessments regarding developments proposed to take place on, or which are likely to impact on, sacred sites and on lands and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous and local communities, 2004. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change: How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change, 2014. Caleb Stevens, Robert Winterbottom, Katie Reytar & Jenny Springer, World Resources Institute
Medical Law
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Education
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Constitutional Law
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Human Rights
- Study Guide: Rights of Indigenous Peoples/Guía de estudio: los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- Language & Culture Archives. SIL International (formerly Summer Language Institute)
- Indian Givers: What Indigenous Peoples Have Contributed to International Human Rights Law, 2006. S. James Anaya, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
- Un largo camino hacia el reconocimiento de derechos indígenas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 2010. Juan Manuel Harguindegu
- Bibliotecas indígenas: Revisión bibliográfica y estado actual de la cuestión a nivel internacional, 2007. Edgardo Civallero
Nationality & Citizenship
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Administrative Law
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Public Property
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Courts & Procedures
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Last Updated: 03/17/2017
