Indigenous Rights and Universal Periodic Review: A Confluence of Human Rights and Environmental Issues

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The scale and complexity of the issues posed by the Anthropocene requires resolution through the involvement of science with alternative knowledge systems. Indigenous peoples provide a rich source of alternative knowledge systems. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) offers a way of involving indigenous perspectives into global discourses about the Anthropocene. UPR subjects each UN member state to a periodically scheduled review of its human rights record, but does so by welcoming reports from non-state sources including indigenous peoples. Indigenous use of UPR is welcomed by the UN HRC and encouraged by the International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs. While the UPR is ostensibly a component of the UN human rights system, it has become an inclusive process accommodating human rights issues arising from a broad array of subjects, including environmental problems. This means that the UPR allows indigenous peoples to take local environmental problems to an international level.

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Liljeblad, J. (2019). Indigenous Rights and Universal Periodic Review: A Confluence of Human Rights and Environmental Issues. In Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene (pp. 151–157). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9065-4_13

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