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Seminars on the ‘Rights of Peoples’



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Scope and Content Note

Date range: 1985

Extent: 8 cm (1 box)

The papers were donated to the Institute by Dr. Nancy Williams.

The collection consists of revised versions of papers delivered at the Seminar on ‘Rights of the Peoples’ held under the auspices of the Australian National Commission of UNESCO and the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy in Sydney on 28 and 29 March 1985. It also contains the papers of the second Seminar on ‘Rights of the Peoples’ held in Canberra on 14 and 15 June 1985. The papers from the March seminar provided the basic documentation for the June seminar.

The topics covered by the papers included human, individual, cultural and Indigenous people's rights and the right to self-determination.

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1

List of discussion groups for June seminar 1985

2

Program for June seminar 1985

3

List of participants [date unknown]

4

‘Aspects of the right to self determination: some comments on South Africa and Ireland’, by Kevin Boyle

5

‘’Peoples’ and ‘populations’: Indigenous peoples and the rights of peoples’, by Garth Nettheim

6

‘Cultural rights as peoples rights’, by Lyndel V. Prott

7

‘The rights of ‘peoples’s’ and individual rights: conflict or harmony’, by Gillian Triggs

8

‘Communication by Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow on the theme ‘Human rights and the rights of peoples’ (25.10.84)

9

‘Address by the Minister for Education, Senator Susan Ryan, at the opening of the Australian National Commission for Unesco Symposium on the Rights of Peoples, Canberra, 14 June 1985’

10-11

Program for June seminar (2 copies)

12

Documents distributed to seminar participants as background documents, comprising:

 
  • Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, Algiers, 4 July 1976  (Algiers Declaration).  Photocopied Appendix from unknown source
 
  • ‘Organization of African Unity: Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights’, 27 June 1981
 
  • Unesco Panel of Counsellors on Major Programme XIII, Peace, International Understanding, Human Rights and Rights of Peoples, ‘Advice and recommendations’, Paris, 15-18 January 1985
 
  • Unesco Panel of Counsellors on Major Programme XIII ‘Advice and recommendations’, Paris, 15-18 January 1985

13

‘’Peoples’ and ‘populations’: Indigenous peoples and the rights of peoples’, by Garth Nettheim [photocopy. Also held as Item 5] and letter sent with documents for the June Symposium. Also 'ALRU [Aboriginal Law Research Unit] briefing paper Defending Aboriginal cultures’ (1983), containing a brief introduction and a reproduction of the of the 'Declaration of San Jose' and letter about the seminar

14

Letter of invitation to June seminar sent to Nancy Williams, biographical note for principal guest Richard Falk and program for the second seminar

15

‘The rights of peoples in modern international law’, by Ian Brownlie

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Media release on the March Seminar

17

Program for first seminar, 28.3.85

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Bulletin of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy, v.9, no. 33, June 1985 special issue, ‘The Rights of peoples’. The issue contains revised versions of papers delivered at the first seminar held on 28 and 29 March 1985. The special issue provided basic documentation for the second seminar held in June 1985. The issue contains

  • ‘Introduction’, by M.D. Kirby

  • ‘The rights of peoples in modern international law’, by Ian Brownlie

  • ‘The right to development: a right of peoples?’, by Roland Rich

  • ‘The rights of peoples’: peoples or governments?’ by James Crawford

  • ‘Human rights: people’s rights’, Eugene Kamenka

  • ‘Three comments’, by P. Bailey, K. Taperell, H.C. Coombs

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    Finding Aid compiled by J. E. Churches, March 2002