Human Rights and the Arctic
Abstract This article surveys some of the many international human rights law issues that come up in connection with the Arctic, such as the rights of indigenous peoples and the formulation of these rights in a draft Nordic Sami Convention. The focus, however, is on recent developments concerning th...
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crbrillap:10.1163/22116427-91000013 2024-06-23T07:49:42+00:00 Human Rights and the Arctic Alfredsson, Gudmundur 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116427-91000013 https://brill.com/view/journals/yplo/1/1/article-p233_13.xml https://data.brill.com/files/journals/22116427_001_01_S13_text.pdf unknown Brill The Yearbook of Polar Law Online volume 1, issue 1, page 233-243 ISSN 1876-8814 2211-6427 journal-article 2009 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/22116427-91000013 2024-06-03T08:12:02Z Abstract This article surveys some of the many international human rights law issues that come up in connection with the Arctic, such as the rights of indigenous peoples and the formulation of these rights in a draft Nordic Sami Convention. The focus, however, is on recent developments concerning the status of Greenland as a result of an agreement concluded in 2008 between the Danish and Greenlandic authorities. This agreement foresees not only a significant increase in self-government but also opens the door for the Greenlandic people to create an independent State through the exercise of the right to external self-determination as a matter of political decolonisation of an overseas colonial territory. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland greenlandic sami Yearbook of Polar Law Brill Arctic Greenland The Yearbook of Polar Law Online 1 1 233 243 |
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Abstract This article surveys some of the many international human rights law issues that come up in connection with the Arctic, such as the rights of indigenous peoples and the formulation of these rights in a draft Nordic Sami Convention. The focus, however, is on recent developments concerning the status of Greenland as a result of an agreement concluded in 2008 between the Danish and Greenlandic authorities. This agreement foresees not only a significant increase in self-government but also opens the door for the Greenlandic people to create an independent State through the exercise of the right to external self-determination as a matter of political decolonisation of an overseas colonial territory. |
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