Indigenous People Rights

Update to ASIL Insight Vol. 10, Issue 19

On January 23, 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected Uruguay's request for "provisional measures" against Argentina "a form of injunctive relief"aimed at putting an immediate end to blockades of bridges and roads connecting Argentina and Uruguay by Argentine citizens protesting the construction of a disputed pulp mill project on the Uruguayan side of the border. The project is the subject of the Pulp Mills Case (Argentina v.

On June 29, 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council[1] adopted the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[2] This decision comes as a result of more than twenty years of work by the United Nations system on that subject.