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Rights of Indigenous Peoples: IGO Documents

This research guide is dealing with a specific human rights issue relating to the rights of indigenous people. Thanks to Northeastern Law Students Nicole Santiago and Jenna Pollock for sharing their research results.

United Nations

Find UN Documents from the UN Document Center:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/

Indigenous peoples Homepage by OHCHR
- This is the official UN homepage relating to the rights of indigenous people, maintained by the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights. It provides links to various UN instruments and documents including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Other Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs)

Use the legal databases provided by each organizations.

Organization of American States (OAS): Treaties and Agreements

World Trade Organization (WTO): Legal Texts

North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Secretariat

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP):ECOLEX

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):Legal Office

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea

International Labor Organization (ILO)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): WIPO Lex

International Law Commission (ILC)