Rights of Peoples

Name: Rights of Peoples
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ISBN: 9780198258049

ISBN-10: 0198258046

ISBN-13: 9780198258049

Edition: 1988

Authors: James Crawford, Hans Kruuk

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Human rights are an important and popular subject. Since 1948 the international human rights movement has become a major force, and has produced important changes in international law. But apart from individual human rights, claims have long been made to collective rights, for example, minority rights, the rights of peoples under colonial rule, aboriginal rights. More recently claims have been made to a number of 'rights of peoples', including rghts of an economic kind - the 'right to development', for example, or to permanent sovereignty over natural resources. Some claims are even more ambitious - for example, the right to peace, or to a healthy environment. It has been argued that these…

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List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Nico Schrijver holds the Chair of International Law and is Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. He is author of The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law: Inception, Meaning, and Status and Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties.

Hans Kruuk is Honorary Professor of Zoology, University of Aberdeen and Senior Principal Scientific Officer (Retired) at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Banchory.



Editor's Preface


Notes on the Contributors



The Rights of Peoples in Modern International Law




The Rights of Peoples (In Particular Indigenous Peoples)




The Right to Development: A Right of Peoples?




The Rights of Peoples: 'Peoples' or 'Governments'?




Rights of Peoples: A Logician's Point of View




Cultural Rights as Peoples' Rights in International Law




'Peoples' and 'Populations': Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Peoples




Human Rights: Peoples' Rights




The Rights of Peoples and Individual Rights: Conflict or Harmony?




Some Conclusions



Selected Treaties, Resolutions, and other Documents on the Rights of Peoples


Select Bibliography


Index