2.10 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007

UNDRIP (the soft-law codification): the self-determination (Articles 3-4: the internal self- determination — the autonomy-and-self-governance face); the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) — the projects' consent standard (the dams-and-mines' faces — the consultation's strongest form); the lands-and-resources (the traditional lands' recognition; the redress for the takings); the culture (the languages, the sacred sites, the repatriation); the treaties' honouring; the declaration's character (the non-binding-but-authoritative — the rights' articulation); the four objectors' drama (the 2007 vote's states-and-reversals — the Australia- Canada-New Zealand-US line); Nepal: the yes-vote (the 2007 alignment; the implementation debates — the ILO-169's-and-UNDRIP's domestication in the 2015 Constitution's-and-laws' faces). Exam Focus Long questions (the two-per-question craft): (i) CEDAW (the definition + the special measures + the OP — the banker); (ii) DEVAW (the violence-as-violation paradigm); (iii) CRPD (the paradigm shift + the legal capacity); (iv) ILO 169 + UNDRIP (the indigenous pair — the binding-vs-soft contrast); (v) The UDHR-ICCPR-ICESCR's equality architecture. Short questions: the Article 26's autonomous equality; the "descent" in ICERD; the FPIC; the GR 19. Trick areas: (i) CEDAW's Article 4 AUTHORISES the special measures (not discrimination) — the affirmative action's treaty base; (ii) DEVAW is a DECLARATION (the non-binding soft law) — but the violence's duties are treaty-based through CEDAW-GR-19's reading (the instruments' layers); (iii) ILO 169 is BINDING and Nepal IS a party (the 2007…