News

will take place on

February 19, 2025   

at 16:45 CET

in Room 9, Dobra 72

Indigenous people have always been unheralded in the international legal system. All around the world, their lands were confiscated, Implemented assimilation policies aimed to erase indigenous culture and to “civilize” them. As a result, they were banished from their lands to territories demarcated by settlers, children tended to be separated from their parents and placed in Caucasian foster care, forced sterilization became a common procedure and violent residential schools which forbade use of native languages kept on flourishing. Even though most of these policies stopped being practiced in the second half of the 20th century, socio-economic inequalities, prejudice and lack of distinct national legal protection remained. Thus the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People as the first international agreement fully focusing on matters linked with native communities and problems they face became a sensation. Even though this non-legally binding document was voted by a majority during the General Assembly session in 2007, there were four countries which opposed the Declaration: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

To join the seminar online, please register before 3 PM
on the seminar day at crp@al.uw.edu.pl