Wednesday, January 11, 2012

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 16, no. 1, 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Indigenous peoples' rights: new perspectives
    • Mauro Barelli, Free, prior and informed consent in the aftermath of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: developments and challenges ahead
    • Marco Odello, Indigenous peoples' rights and cultural identity in the inter-American context
    • Kristin Hausler, Indigenous perspectives in the courtroom
    • Heather A. Northcott, Realisation of the right of indigenous peoples to natural resources under international law through the emerging right to autonomy
    • Sheryl R. Lightfoot, Selective endorsement without intent to implement: indigenous rights and the Anglosphere
    • Sarah Sargent, Transnational networks and United Nations human rights structural change: the future of indigenous and minority rights
    • Fiona Batt, Ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and intellectual property rights
    • Enzamaria Tramontana, Civil society participation in international decision making: recent developments and future perspectives in the indigenous rights arena
    • Shayna Plaut, ‘Cooperation is the story’ – best practices of transnational indigenous activism in the North
    • Jennifer Huseman & Damien Short, ‘A slow industrial genocide’: tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta