National and international contexts

RIGHTS AIPP AIPP Regional Capacity Building Program - Training Manual on the UNDRIP 27 Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co- operation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations 24 Oc- tober 1970. Vienna Declaration on Human Rights 25 June 1993. UN Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples 14 December 1960. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING MacKay, Fergus. 2005. Indigenous Peoples and United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Vol. I 1993-2004 and Vol. II 2005-2006 UK: Forest Peoples’ Programme. Clark, Donald and Robert Williamson, ed. 1996. Self-Determination: International Per- spectives London and New York: Macmillan.

II. UNDRIP PROVISIONS ON SELF-DETERMINATION AND SELF-GOVERNMENT

A. Core Aricles

PP16 Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Na- tions, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self-determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, PP17 Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self-determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Article 3 Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural develop- ment. Article 4 Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autono- my or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions. Article 5 Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State. Present the following UND- RIP provisions, involving the participants in reading them. Discuss and elaborate on the provisions, relating them with one another. Suggested Method Module-1