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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous individuals and peoples have the right to enjoy fully all rights established under applicable international and domestic labour law.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples take specific measures to protect indigenous children from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, taking into account their special vulnerability and the importance of education for their empowerment.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 3.
3. Indigenous individuals have the right not to be subjected to any discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of subsistence and development are entitled to just and fair redress.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In particular, indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programmes through their own institutions.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals. Indigenous individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 3.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used. Indigenous peoples shall have the right to participate in this process.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by means that can include restitution or, when this is not possible, just, fair and equitable compensation, for the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and which have been confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without their free, prior and informed consent.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Unless otherwise freely agreed upon by the peoples concerned, compensation shall take the form of lands, territories and resources equal in quality, size and legal status or of monetary compensation or other appropriate redress.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall establish and implement assistance programmes for indigenous peoples for such conservation and protection, without discrimination.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 3.
3. States shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programmes for monitoring, maintaining and restoring the health of indigenous peoples, as developed and implemented by the peoples affected by such materials, are duly implemented.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples, unless justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the indigenous peoples concerned.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall undertake effective consultations with the indigenous peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, prior to using their lands or territories for military activities.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, States shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 3.
3. States shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the responsibilities of individuals to their communities.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements concluded with States or their successors and to have States honour and respect such treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as diminishing or eliminating the rights of indigenous peoples contained in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of this Declaration.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from States and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Indigenous peoples have the right to access to and prompt decision through just and fair procedures for the resolution of conflicts and disputes with States or other parties, as well as to effective remedies for all infringements of their individual and collective rights. Such a decision shall give due consideration to the customs, traditions, rules and legal systems of the indigenous peoples concerned and international human rights.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
The organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of this Declaration through the mobilization, inter alia, of financial cooperation and technical assistance. Ways and means of ensuring participation of indigenous peoples on issues affecting them shall be established.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
The United Nations, its bodies, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and specialized agencies, including at the country level, and States shall promote respect for and full application of the provisions of this Declaration and follow up the effectiveness of this Declaration.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female indigenous individuals.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2
Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights indigenous peoples have now or may acquire in the future.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 1.
1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 2.
2. In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected. The exercise of the rights set forth in this Declaration shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law and in accordance with international human rights obligations. Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act — U-2.2 3.
3. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 1
Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act .
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 2
Definition of Convention 2 In this Act, Convention means the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, adopted by the United Nations Conference on International Commercial Arbitration in New York on June 10, 1958, as set out in the schedule.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 3
Convention approved 3 The Convention is approved and declared to have the force of law in Canada during such period as, by its terms, the Convention is in force.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 4
Limited to commercial matters 4 (1) The Convention applies only to differences arising out of commercial legal relationships, whether contractual or not. When applicable (2) The Convention applies to arbitral awards and arbitration agreements whether made before or after the coming into force of this Act.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 5
Inconsistent laws 5 In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Act, or the Convention, and the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this Act and the Convention prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 6
Application to court 6 For the purpose of seeking recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award pursuant to the Convention, application may be made to any superior, district or county court. R.S., 1985, c. 16 (2nd Supp.), s. 6; 2002, c. 8, s. 178
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 7
Publication of notice 7 The Minister of Justice shall cause a notice of the day the Convention comes into force and of the day it ceases to be in force to be published in the Canada Gazette within sixty days after its coming into force or ceasing to be in force, and a notice so published shall be judicially noticed.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 8
Regulations 8 The Minister of Justice may make such regulations as are necessary for the purpose of carrying out the Convention or for giving effect to any of the provisions thereof.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 Coming into force
Coming into force * 9 This Act shall come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation. * [Note: Act in force August 10, 1986, see SI/86-154.]
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 1
1 This Convention shall apply to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards made in the territory of a State other than the State where the recognition and enforcement of such awards are sought, and arising out of differences between persons, whether physical or legal. It shall also apply to arbitral awards not considered as domestic awards in the State where their recognition and enforcement are sought.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 2
2 The term “arbitral awards” shall include not only awards made by arbitrators appointed for each case but also those made by permanent arbitral bodies to which the parties have submitted.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 3
3 When signing, ratifying or acceding to this Convention, or notifying extension under article X hereof, any State may on the basis of reciprocity declare that it will apply the Convention to the recognition and enforcement of awards made only in the territory of another Contracting State. It may also declare that it will apply the Convention only to differences arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not, which are considered as commercial under the national law of the State making such declaration.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 1
1 Each Contracting State shall recognize an agreement in writing under which the parties undertake to submit to arbitration all or any differences which have arisen or which may arise between them in respect of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not, concerning a subject matter capable of settlement by arbitration.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 2
2 The term “agreement in writing” shall include an arbitral clause in a contract or an arbitration agreement, signed by the parties or contained in an exchange of letters or telegrams.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 3
3 The court of a Contracting State, when seized of an action in a matter in respect of which the parties have made an agreement within the meaning of this article, shall, at the request of one of the parties, refer the parties to arbitration, unless it finds that the said agreement is null and void, inoperative or incapable of being performed.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4
Each Contracting State shall recognize arbitral awards as binding and enforce them in accordance with the rules of procedure of the territory where the award is relied upon, under the conditions laid down in the following articles. There shall not be imposed substantially more onerous conditions or higher fees or charges on the recognition or enforcement of arbitral awards to which this Convention applies than are imposed on the recognition or enforcement of domestic arbitral awards.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 1
1 To obtain the recognition and enforcement mentioned in the preceding article, the party applying for recognition and enforcement shall, at the time of the application, supply: (a) The duly authenticated original award or a duly certified copy thereof; (b) The original agreement referred to in article II or a duly certified copy thereof.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 (a)
(a) The duly authenticated original award or a duly certified copy thereof;
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 (b)
(b) The original agreement referred to in article II or a duly certified copy thereof.
United Nations Foreign Arbitral Awards Convention Act — U-2.4 2
2 If the said award or agreement is not made in an official language of the country in which the award is relied upon, the party applying for the recognition and enforcement of the award shall produce a translation of these documents into such language. The translation shall be certified by an official or sworn translator or by a diplomatic or consular agent.