Indigenous organising of this depth and magnitude challenges the norms and practices of state sovereignty.
Riccardo Fabiani discusses developments in the domestic and foreign political affairs of Algeria, as well as the Maghreb region more broadly.
The UN, created to uphold the sovereignty of states, has become a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to organise in favour of their rights.
Trudeau recognizes Indigenous peoples not as territorial-based nations, but as historically oppressed cultural groups requiring state protection.
Anarchists need to engage with Indigenous peoples and communities who are already resisting capitalism, colonialism and the state in their areas.
The main obstacle to restoring Indigenous self-determination is that governments face only occasional external pressure to uphold the principles of the UN Declaration.
A relational approach is required because the strengthening of indigenous political participation depends on greater space for dialogue and shared understandings.
Liberal democracy succeeds only when people have reason to share confidence in the system’s capacity to distribute power and authority fairly, reasonably, & inclusively.
Until China acknowledges its international obligations and stops using sovereignty as a shield, the deplorable human rights situation in Tibet seems destined to continue.
A generic application of foreign ways of knowing and knowledge production – including technology systems in African cultural conditions – is inappropriate.
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