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WGIP: Agenda Item 5: Standard-setting |
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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
Please find below a summary of agenda Item 5 of the WGIP on Standard-setting
Mr. Gáspár Biró took the chair during the course of Agenda Item 5. Mr. Yozo Yokota and a representative from the Saami Council commenced by presenting their Future Priorities for Standard-setting Activities. The full text of this draft is adjoined. The Saami Council representative noted the modifications from the previous review of the document, including the removal of Land and Resource Rights from the new document. A reference to sport having been added following the last session, it was recommended that this be amended to include games and sport.
To the suggestion of Mr. Alfonso Martinez that paragraph 11 be removed, Ms. Hampson replied that she would prefer the addition of another paragraph, reading: Indigenous peoples should determine what particular items be considered cultural heritage before para. 11. If para. 11 were then made to read Protection shall generally be extended to ... this would provide a basic position from which indigenous peoples could decide the extent of protection required according to their circumstance. On the subject of free, prior and informed consent, Ms. Hampson insisted that this include the right to veto.
Mr. Yokota took the chair for Agenda Item 5b. Suggestions for possible new studies on the part of the Working Group included property ownership and indigenous peoples, the Western concept of property not being in keeping with an indigenous approach, which may be characterised by a more comprehensive view of the world, especially as a responsibility to be passed on from generation to generation. A new term has been introduced in current discourse, that of common heritage as belonging to common good, the property of all and a legacy for future generations. This led to the more general questioning of the concepts utilized by all actors involved in an issue, indigenous and State, and the proposition for a study on this subject.
The Pacific Caucus noted the need for study of structures on an international level to resolve conflicts between States and indigenous peoples in an independent and non-partial manner.
Ms. Hampson suggested that certain proposed issues are covered by the document used for Agenda Item 8. This contains extraction industries within the examples of studies whilst mapping of military land is covered at the end.
Self-determination study in context of indigenous populations, property and ownership in the context of indigenous rights, indigenous medicine, children, indigenous peoples and media access and obligations, violence against and between indigenous peoples and effects of landmines on indigenous peoples were also proposed by representatives taking the floor.
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