Land rights for indigenous people
Series: PCR information -- 1983/no. 16; PCR information -- no. 16.
Publisher: World Council of Churches, Programme Unit on Justice and Service, Commission on the Programme to Combat Racism
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Religions - Christianity - World Council of Churches; Indigenous peoples - North America - Inuit; Land rights; Indigenous peoples; Land reform; Indigenous peoples - South and Central America
Description: Affirms Churches' support for land rights for Indigenous peoples; includes statement adopted by World Council of Churches, July 1982 ; includes case studies Australia, Brazil and Canada.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Land rights for indigenous people / statement adopted by the Central Committee of the WCC, July 1982; title: "Land rights of indigenous peoples" : background document submitted to the Central Committee / by the PCR Staff, July 1982; title: Cast studies. Australia; title: Brazil; title: Canada; title: Declaration of Barbados I, 1971; title: Declaration of Barbados II, 1977; title: "Racism, land rights and genocidal practices" / statement from the World Consultation on Racism, 1980; title: Declaration of principles for the defence of the indigenous nations and peoples of the western hemisphere, 1977; title: Statement of International NGO Conference on Indigenous People and the Land, 1981; title: Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas, 1980; title: Declaration of San José, 1981; title: Press Release of UN Seminar on Racial Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in Managua, 1981.