Commentaries by S. James Anaya

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment

October 3, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...

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