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Given the reticence of states about cultural rights, this essay explores how the independent UN human rights monitoring bodies filled the gap. Cultural rights made the human rights system burst at the seams, and these bodies picked up the bold demand that culture poses for human rights. Through their practice, they crafted an understanding of the normative content of cultural rights and thus helped overcome the seemingly insurmountable political difficulties of states. Through an international law perspective, the essay unravels this practice and presents a critical analysis of the new developments in this area.

"Indigenous Peoples and Borders considers the problem of state borders, which are frequently legacies of colonialism, and their impact on Indigenous Peoples around the world. Indigenous lands are frequently divided by such borders creating difficulties for their Native inhabitants that were until recently largely disregarded by international law and international relations scholars. The contributors, including many Indigenous rights practitioners, take up issues of sovereignty, power, globalization, economic integration, and self-determination in areas from Bangladesh to the Russian Arctic to Mexico. The collection takes a comparative, multidisciplinary, and global approach showing the ways Indigenous Peoples are challenging and working around borders, even as they are constrained by them"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- REFLECTIONS BY NOBEL LAUREATES -- Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1991) -- M F Perutz, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1962) -- John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1986) -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate (1984) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- VOICES: A Tribute to Human Rights -- INTRODUCTION -- PART II: THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM -- Chapter 1: The Perspective of the Victim -- Chapter 2: A Victims' Perspective on the International Human Rights Treaty Regime -- Chapter 3: International Labour Organization (ILO) Standards and Human Rights -- Chapter 4: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights -- Chapter 5: The United Nations Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power -- Chapter 6: Thematic Mechanisms and the Protection of Human Rights -- Chapter 7: The Country Mechanisms of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights -- Chapter 8: Closer to the Victim: United Nations Human Rights Field Operations -- Chapter 9: Toward an International Criminal Court -- PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS OF SPECIFIC GROUPS: CONCEPTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 10: Recognizing and Realizing Women's Human Rights -- VOICES: Lessening the Suffering After Wartime Sexual Slavery -- VOICES: Work Tools: Patience and Understanding -- Chapter 11: A Vision for Children: The Convention on the Rights of the Child -- VOICES: John, An Australian Aboriginal Child -- VOICES: Alfredo, Abducted by RENAMO in Mozambique Susan, Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda -- Chapter 12: Indigenous Peoples and Their Demands within the Modern Human Rights Movement