Speciic Provisions on Health

RIGHTS AIPP AIPP Regional Capacity Building Program - Training Manual on the UNDRIP 131 Article 14 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cul- tural methods of teaching and learning. 2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of edu- cation of the State without discrimination. 3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language. Article 15 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public informa- tion. Article 16 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination. 2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indig- enous cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage privately owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity. Article 31 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifesta- tions of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to main- tain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, tradi- tional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions. LINKS • The UN Declaration on the Right to Development. This declaration describes develop- ment as an inalienable human right and also implies the full realization of the right of peoples to self-determination. • ILO Convention No. 169. This convention stipulates a right-based approach to develop- ment, based on the respect for indigenous peoples’ right to determine their own priori- ties underlining the concept of consultation and effective participation. • ILO Convention No. 111. This Convention specifically deals with the elimination of both direct and indirect discrimination of indigenous people and other minorities in employment and in regard to their occupation. • The International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights. • The International Treaty on Plant and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. This treaty recognizes the importance of farmers’ knowledge to the conservation of plant and genetic resources for food and agriculture, and recognizes the rights of the farmers to their knowledge. It, however, vests primary ownership of the plant and ge- netic resources in the state. • The Convention on Biological Diversity. This Convention recognizes the importance of indigenous knowledge to biodiversity conservation and recognizes the rights of indig- enous peoples to their knowledge. Module-6