ECMI Library
The ECMI Library is an independent collection of books, journals, and grey literature of more than 3,000 items covering many aspects of minority issues. The highly specialized collection offers public access to a variety of materials in more than twenty languages on interethnic relations, language and cultural diversity issues and ethnic conflict in Europe.
The Library includes a useful reference section and a considerable number of published and unpublished reports, and is especially strong in the area of minority protection with regards to international law. The ECMI Library is also unique in that it includes an ever-growing number of annual reports of Ombudsman offices around the world, which provide insight into the human rights situation in many countries. Current periodical and newspaper subscriptions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ECMI research, and reference services are provided both in-house and for the general public.
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| Author |
Thornberry, Patrick |
|---|---|
| Title | Indigenous peoples and human rights |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. Human rights. 2. Indigenous peoples-Legal status, laws, etc. |
| Publisher | Manchester: Manchester University Press |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | xii, 484 |
| Description | This is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights. The primary reference point is the contemporary law, though the book also examines the history of the peoples through the lens of historical legal discourses. The work critically assesses the politics of definition and analyses contested definitions and descriptions of indigenous groups. Most of the chapters are devoted to detailed examination of existing and emerging human rights texts at global and regional levels. Among instruments considered in the book are the International Covenants on Human Rights, the UN Convention on the rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of Alll Forms of Racial Discrimination, the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, ILO Conventions on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, the UN Draft Declaration on Indigenous Peoples and the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as European human rights instruments. Issues of individual and collective rights, self-determination, land rights, cultural property, and the potential for strategic use of undifferentiated human rights and minority rights for indigenous groups, inform the work as a whole. This book will be of considerable interest to academics in law, anthroplogy and related disciplines, human rights and indigenous activists, and students and teachers of international law and human rights. |
| Type | Book |
| Note | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Language | English |
| Series | Melland Schill Studies in International Law |
| Identifier | 0719037948 |
| Call No. |
341 .4'81 |
| Location |
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How to find the ECMI Library?
The ECMI Library is accessible to staff, students and the general public at the:
Danish Central Library (next to The Schleswig Collection)
Norderstraße 59
Flensburg.
Materials from the ECMI Library may not be loaned out, but can be consulted in the Danish library on the following days:
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
For any other inquiries, please contact the ECMI Librarian at library@
ecmi.de.
