Indigenous Peoples Health Resources
A list of commonly used resources on health and human rights of indigenous peoples follows.
A. International Instruments
Binding
- ILO, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, No. 169 (1989).
www.ilo.org/indigenous/Conventions/no169/lang–en/index.htm.
Nonbinding
- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
- General Comment no. 11: Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention (2009).
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/comments.htm. - The rights of indigenous children, Recommendation (2003).
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/discussion.htm. - UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
- General Recommendations: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/comments.htm.
- UN Development Group, UNDG Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples issues (2008).
www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/UNDG_training_16EN.pdf. - UN Human Rights Council, Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/EMRIPIndex.aspx. - Advice No. 1 (2009) on the Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education
- Advice No 2 (2011): Indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision making
- Advice No 3 (2012) on Indigenous peoples’ languages and cultures
- Advice No 4 (2012) on Indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision making, with a
focus on extractive industries - United Nations, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.N. Doc. A/RES 61/295
(September 7, 2007). www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf.
B. Regional Instruments
Binding
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, American Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples OEA/Ser/L/V/.II.95 Doc.6 (February 26, 1997). www.cidh.oas.org/indigenas/chap.2g.htm.
C. Indigenous Rights – General
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Indigenous Peoples in Africa: The Forgotten Peoples? The African Commission’s work on indigenous peoples in Africa (2006). www.ilo.org/indigenous/Resources/Publications/WCMS_115929/lang–en/index.htm.
- Anaya J, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996).
- Australian Human Rights Commission, Community Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2010). www.humanrights.gov.au/declaration_indigenous/index.html.
- ILO and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Overview Report of the Research Project on the constitutional and legislative protection of the rights of indigenous peoples in 24 African countries (2009).
www1.chr.up.ac.za/chr_old/indigenous/overview_report/ILO_overview_report_web.pdf. - Minority Rights Group International, State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011 (July 6, 2011). www.minorityrights.org/10848/state-of-the-worlds-minorities/state-of-the-worlds-minorities-and-indigenous-peoples-2011.html.
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2009).
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/SOWIP_web.pdf.
D. Right to Health
- Barnsley I, “The Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples in the Industrialized World: A Research Agenda” Health and Human Rights 9, no. 1 (2006): 43-54. www.hhrjournal.org/archives-pdf/4065389.pdf.bannered.pdf.
- Boyer Y, The International Right to Health for Indigenous Peoples in Canada (No. 3), Discussion Paper Series in Aboriginal health: Legal Issues (National Aboriginal Health Organization, October 2004). http://nnapf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/international-right-health-indigenous-peoples-canada.pdf.
- Coelho V and Shankland A, “Making the right to health a reality for Brazil’s indigenous peoples: innovation, decentralization, and equity,” Medicc Review 13, no. 3 (July 2011): 50-53. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21778961.
- Foley C, MDG Reports, CCAs, UNDAFs, and Indigenous Peoples: A Desk Review (United Nations, 2010).
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/Desk%20Review%202010.pdf. - Hitchcock RK and Draper P, Health Issues Among the San of Western Botswana (2003).
www.kalaharipeoples.org/documents/San-heal.htm. - Ohenjo N et al., “Indigenous health in Africa,” The Lancet 367, no. 9526 (2006):1937-1946.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)68849-1/abstract - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), “Health of Indigenous Peoples”.
www.paho.org/Project.asp?SEL=TP&LNG=ENG&ID=179. - Stephens C et al., “Disappearing, displaced, and undervalued: a call to action for Indigenous health worldwide,” The Lancet 367, no. 9527 (June 2006): 2019-2028. www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01406736/367/9527. (Not open source).
- WHO, Health of indigenous peoples, Factsheet (2007). www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs326/en/index.html.
E. Right to Housing
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Indigenous peoples’ right to adequate housing: A global overview (2005). www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/IndigenousPeoplesHousingen.pdf.
F. Rights of Indigenous Women
- Banda F and Chinkin C, Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples (Minority Rights Group International, 2004). www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=115.
- Human Rights Watch, Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada (2013). www.hrw.org/reports/2013/02/13/those-who-take-us-away-0.
- International Indigenous Women’s Forum (IIWF/FIMI). www.fimi-iiwf.org .
- UNFPA, Forum: Indigenous Women in Latin America. www.unfpa.org/rights/indigenous.htm.
G. Rights of Indigenous Children
(See also Chapter 6: Children’s Health and Human Rights)
- Jovénes Indígenas. www.jovenesindigenas.com.
- Miller M, Ensuring the rights of indigenous children, Innocenti Digest 11 (UNICEF, 2004).
www.unicef-irc.org/publications/356. - UN International Indigenous Youth Caucus. http://projects.tigweb.org/indigenous.
- UNICEF, Human Rights-based Approach to Programming, “Indigenous and Minority Children”.
www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/rights/index_60331.html. - UNICEF, Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, Know Your Rights! United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for indigenous adolescents (2013). www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/rights/files/HRBAP_UN_Rights_Indig_Peoples.pdf.
- UNICEF, “Children of minorities or of indigenous peoples”, Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2007).
- Handbook: www.unicef.org/crc/files/Implementation%20Handbook%203rd%20ed.pdf.
- Checklists: www.unicef.org/ceecis/handbook_2_CHECKLISTS.pdf.
H. Training, Database and Study Guides
- ILO, Indigenous & Tribal People’s Rights in Practice – A Guide to ILO Convention No. 169 (2009).
www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—normes/documents/publication/wcms_106474.pdf. - ILO, “PRO 169 Training Tool Box on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights”. www.pro169.org
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, “STUDY GUIDE: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (2003). www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/studyguides/indigenous.html.
- University of Pretoria, Centre for Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Database:
www1.chr.up.ac.za/chr_old/indigenous/index.html.
I. Websites
- Amnesty International Canada, “Indigenous Peoples”. www.amnesty.ca/our-work/issues/indigenous-peoples
- Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP). www.aippnet.org
- Asian Human Rights Commission, “Indigenous People”. www.humanrights.asia/issues/indigenous-people
- Consejo Civico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH): www.copinh.org.
- Cultural Survival: www.culturalsurvival.org.
- European Union, “EU policy on indigenous peoples”: http://eeas.europa.eu/human_rights/ip/index_en.htm.
- First Peoples Worldwide: www.firstpeoples.org.
- Forest Peoples Programme: www.forestpeoples.org.
- Government Organizations
- Australian Human Rights Commission, “Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice”:
www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/index.html. - Government of Canada, “Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada”:
www.aandc-aadnc.gc.ca. - U.S. Government, Bureau of Indian Affairs: www.bia.gov.
- ILO, “Indigenous and Tribal Peoples”: www.ilo.org/indigenous.
- Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia: www.ihrna.info.
- Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC): www.ipacc.org.za/eng/default.asp.
- Indigenous Peoples Links (PIPLinks): http://int.piplinks.org .
- International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs: www.iwgia.org.
- Legal Assistance Centre: www.lac.org.na.
- National Congress of American Indians: www.ncai.org.
- Survival International: www.survivalinternational.org.
- UNFPA, “Putting Rights into Practice: Addressing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”:
www.unfpa.org/rights/people.htm. - UN OHCHR, The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/EMRIPIndex.aspx. - UN OHCHR, “Indigenous Peoples”. www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/IndigenousPeoplesIndex.aspx.
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples.aspx.
- “Health”: http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples/ThematicIssues/Health.aspx.
- “Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations”: www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/session_fifth.html.
- UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Racism/SRRacism/Pages/IndexSRRacism.aspx.
- UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx.
- UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/SRIndigenousPeoples/Pages/SRIPeoplesIndex.aspx