Today, 11-07-07, on American Indian Airwaves

"Implementing the Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: First Nation Adoption & Recognition"

Part 1:
Benjamin Dangl (http://www.upsidedownworld.org/), the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia.  In recognizing the fundamental rights of the world�s 370 indigenous peoples, this past Thursday, on November 1st, 2007 the Bolivian Congress became the first country in the world to adopt the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which was passed by the UN General Assembly on September 13th, 2007. Benjamin Dangl provides an update on the Bolivian state of affairs.

 
Part 2: 
S. James Anaya http://www.law.arizona.edu/faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=31), James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law. S. Dr. James Anaya who spoke recently at the Indigenous Peoples Regional Forum on the "Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: History-Presence -Destiny" this past October 26^th, 2007 in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Anaya spoke on the Supreme Court of Belize incorporation and recognition of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the recent cases of the Mayan peoples of Conejo and Santa Cruz. Thus making the Belize Supreme Court the first judicial body in the world to recognize and implement the declaration and the rights it confers indigenous peoples. 

Professor, legal scholar, and lawyer S. James Anaya is the author of several recent publications on international law including: International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice (4th ed. 2006) (co-author, with Richard B. Lillich, Hurst Hannum, & Dinah L. Shelton). Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2d ed. 2004); The Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights Over Lands and Natural Resources Under the Inter-American Human Rights System, 14 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 33 (2001) (co-author with Robert A. Williams, Jr.); The Native Hawaiian People and International Human Rights Law: Toward a Remedy for Past and Continuing Wrongs, 28 Ga. L. Rev. 309 (1994), reprinted in International Law and Indigenous Peoples 309 (S. James Anaya ed., 2003).

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