Minorities, peoples, and self-determination : essays in honour of Patrick Thornberry / / edited by Nazila Ghanea and Alexandra Xanthaki.

This volume presents new thinking on minority and indigenous rights in international law. Debates that receive attention in this volume include self-determination, definitional issues, collective rights and rights to natural resources. Other chapters unravel challenges that have not attracted suffic...

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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:xviii, 352 p.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction and Acknowledgements
  • SECTION I. SELF-DETERMINATION AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
  • Chapter 1 What are Indigenous Peoples?
  • Chapter 2 The Right to Self-Determination: Meaning and Scope
  • Chapter 3 Self-Determination and the Use of Force
  • Chapter 4 Conceptual Difficulties and the Right to Indigenous Self-Determination
  • Chapter 5 Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land and Natural Resources
  • Chapter 6 The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples
  • Chapter 7 Economic Solutions to Political Problems: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
  • SECTION II. MINORITIES
  • Chapter 8 Individuals, Collectivities and Rights
  • Chapter 9 Minorities, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and Peoples: Definitions of Terms as a Matter of International Law
  • Chapter 10 Integration and Separation: Legal and Political Choices in Implementing Minority Rights
  • Chapter 11 Repressing Minorities and Getting Away with It? A Consideration of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Chapter 12 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
  • Chapter 13 Colour as a Ground of Discrimination
  • Chapter 14 The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: Pyrometer, Prophylactic, Pyrosvestis
  • Chapter 15 Council of Europe Policies Concerning the Protection of Linguistic Minorities and the Justiciability of Minority Rights
  • Chapter 16 The African Union and the Prospects for Minority Protection
  • Chapter 17 The Kurdish Question in Turkey: Historical Roots, Domestic Concerns and International Law
  • Bibliography.