The United Nations Law On Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples

This paper is part of the contribution to the study of one of the legal issues involved in the problems facing indigenous peoples. It is concerned with questions of human ' rights with a particular interest to that of self-determination: specifically, "the United Nations law on self-determination and indigenous peoples". The primary objective of the paper is to investigate and demonstrate the relevance and application of the United Nation law of self-determination to the indigenous peoples: tribes or nations. The subject is based upon the presentation and analysis of the legal and political international documents on the matter; with emphasis on some of their aspects as recognized, developed and particularized through the activites of the United Nations; and their relations to questions affecting the full enjoyment of human rights of these