tailieunhanh - European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Part 2

Ban đầu một dự luật các quyền được thực hiện với nhiều hướng, cách nhìn khác nhau đã được hình thành. Sau đó Liên Hiệp Quốc đã tổng hợp quy hoạch lại các dự luật để tạo thành Tuyên ngôn Quốc tế về Nhân quyền, một công ước cùng các biện pháp thực hiện. | Introduction The point of departure for the book to reiterate is the neglect of indigenous peoples in the story of the expansion of international society from Europe. It should be abundantly clear from the discussion so far that Europeans are not the only peoples to have colonised and subjugated indigenous peoples. Further while the indigenous peoples of South and South-East Asia for example might once have been under European rule they are now ruled by ethnically different and dominant groups of non-Europeans. A study of the indigenous peoples of South and South-East Asia would in itself be a complex and potentially vast topic and for the sake of setting some limits to the book I have chosen to discuss neither those regions nor contemporary cases of non-European rule over indigenous peoples. This omission is not I believe one that affects the claims made later in the book. A further restriction is that the contemporary examples cited in the book relate to English-speaking rule and in particular what Haverman calls the Anglo-Commonwealth comprised by Canada New Zealand and Australia. Apart from the discussion in Chapter 2 of the conquest of Mexico 500 years ago Central America South America and Mexico do not figure in this book. This does not meant to imply they are unimportant. On the contrary the struggles of indigenous peoples in those places extend from the time of the Conquest and colonisation by Europeans down to the present. In colonial and post-colonial times the indigenous peoples of Central and South America have been subjected to genocidal practices and continuing dispossession. Forest peoples including the Yanomami in the Amazon Basin of Brazil have been faced with the dispossession of their traditional lands and in some cases extinction. The continual expansion of mining agriculture and forestry interests is a form of internal colonialism that often has tragic results for the cultures and the survival of indigenous peoples. As Susan Stonich puts it .