A New Head of the Table: Indigenous Peoples at the Forefront of UNDRIP

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Abstract: This two-part paper asks how international Human Rights documents’ design process can become more effective and inclusive in advancing indigenous human rights by adopting a design mechanism similar to that of the Fair Food Program by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). The purpose of this essay is to advocate for indigenous peoples’ direct participation and inclusion into Indigenous Human Rights documents’ design processes as a preliminary step towards establishing, securing, and protecting the rights that are representative of their own culture, tradition, beliefs, experiences, and perspectives. This serves as a call to action that counters the United Nations’ current western Human Rights frameworks and processes, which are ineffective in that they discuss indigenous peoples without the equal representation and understanding of their lived experiences and outlooks. Through an analysis of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), it will pinpoint a few of the faults of contemporary Indigenous Human Rights documents and representation, suggesting that their design processes inadvertently become exclusionary to indigenous peoples. It will then present the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a worker-based Human Rights organization, and their successful Fair Food Program as examples of possible design models to be emulated when amending the UNDRIP and drafting future Indigenous Human Rights documents.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2018

Author	Clemente, Sara
Primary advisor	Cavallaro, James
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Center for Latin American Studies

Subject	Indigenous Human Rights
Subject	UNDRIP
Subject	document design process
Subject	Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Subject	CIW
Subject	Fair Food Program
Subject	drafting
Subject	United Nations
Subject	framework
Subject	marginalization
Subject	rhetoric
Subject	advocacy
Subject	Stanford
Subject	Center for Latin America Studies
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xh917cq6431

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Preferred Citation: Clemente, Sara. (2018). A New Head of the Table: Indigenous Peoples at the Forefront of UNDRIP. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/xh917cq6431

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