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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Commentary. Edited by Jessie Hohmann & Marc Weller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 611 + xlii pages.

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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Commentary. Edited by Jessie Hohmann & Marc Weller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 611 + xlii pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

DWIGHT NEWMAN*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law, University of Saskatchewan; 2019 Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford
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Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2019 

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References

1 GA Res 61/295, UN Doc A/RES/61/295 (2007), reprinted in UNGAOR, 61st Sess, Supp No 49, vol III, UN Doc A/61/49 (vol III) (2008) at 15–25.

2 For example, compare the timeline to that of Murray, Rachel, The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019),Google Scholar released thirty-eight years after the adoption of the African Charter and thirty-three years after its entry into force.

3 Doc AG/RES.2888 (XLVI-O/16) (15 June 2016), online: <https://www.oas.org/en/sare/documents/DecAmIND.pdf>.

4 Recorded as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States in UN Doc A/61/PV.107 (2007) at 19.

5 See notably the numerous statements delivered both before and after the vote recorded in the official transcript of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in UN Doc A/61/PV.107 (2007) at 10–28.

6 See especially the multiple chapters on the issue in Allen, Stephen & Xanthaki, Alexandra, eds, Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart, 2011).Google Scholar

7 Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44, [2014] 2 SCR 257.

8 Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54, [2017] 2 SCR 386.