Indigenous Human Rights is an edited selection of proceedings of the Australian Indigenous Human Rights Conference, organised by members of Southern Cross University in February 2000. The collection covers a range of issues relating to Indigenous human rights including: racial discrimination and "special measures"; removal of children; law and order; access to the United Nations; and prospects for the use of international law. One of the most important aspects of the book is the range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from Australia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe.

Published by the Institute of Criminology, Sydney

Table of Contents

Foreword - Warwick Fisher & Sam Garkawe
Introduction - Larissa Behrendt

PART ONE: INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER 1: The legitimacy of special measures - William Jonas and Margaret Donaldson
CHAPTER 2: One Indigenous perspective on human rights - Irene Watson
CHAPTER 3: Cultural rights, human rights and the contemporary removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families - Chris Cunneen and Terry Libesman
CHAPTER 4: "Dry 'em out" or "lock 'em up": contrasting approaches to law and order in Tennant Creek - Pamela Ditton
CHAPTER 5: Asserting Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights - Terri Janke

PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 6: The influence of Indigenous peoples on the development of international law - S. James Anaya
CHAPTER 7: Locating human rights in the South Pacific: a Korero about human rights - Nin Tomas
CHAPTER 8: The Indian Child Welfare Act, love has little to do with it - Mary Jo B. Hunter
CHAPTER 9: Indigenous rights to self-government and self-determination: an Inuit Arctic perspective - Joern Berglund Nielsen

PART THREE: REALISING HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 10: Realising human rights: utilising UN mechanisms - Elizabeth Evatt
CHAPTER 11: Getting government to listen - Bill Barker
CHAPTER 12: The real crime of the State and Indigenous people's human rights - Paul Omojo Omaji
CHAPTER 13: Unfinished business - national responsibilities and local actions - Peter Yu

"The book makes a valuable contribution to the discourse on Australian indigenous human rights from an international perspective."

- Law Institute Journal (Vic), September 2003