Patrick Thornberry - Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

Indigenous peoples and human rights

Melland Schill Studies in International Law
Series editor Professor Dominic McGoldrick

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Acknowledgements

My thanks goes firstly to Manchester University Press for their enormous patience with someone who spent a number of years not writing this book, and to Tony Mason in particular for encouraging me to finish it. I would like to extend special thanks to Dr Jeremy McBride of the University of Birmingham who suggested the project and supervised its initial stages, and to Professor Dominic McGoldrick, series editor, for his generous assistance and guidance. Beyond these prime movers, I wish to remember Pekka Aikio, Gudmundur Alfredsson, James Anaya, Anti-Slavery International, Michael Banton, Julian Burger, Erica-Irene Daes, Mara Amor Martn Estbanez, Andrew Gray, Lauri Hannikainen, Frank Horn, John Henriksen, John Horton, Paul Hunt, IWGIA, Keele University, Osvaldo Kreimer, Virginia Leary, Andrew Linklater, Juan Mendez, Minority Rights Group, Johannes Morsink, Rachel Murray, Javaid Rehman, Chandra Roy, Martin Scheinin, Dawn Sedman, Lee Swepston, Francesca Thornberry, zlem lgen and Alexandra Xanthaki, for various contributions to the development of ideas, information and resources for writing this book contributions of which they may not all be equally aware. I also wish to thank my family for their emotional and practical support during a tortuous writing process.

The early interest in writing the book developed from attending meetings of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in the early 1990s, where I made many friends from among the assembled peoples. I never forgot this experience. This book is for those who were there, for those who are no longer with us, and for all indigenous peoples. I hope they will understand and foregive any errors or misconceptions on my part.

Patrick Thornberry

Patrick Thornberry

Copyright Patrick Thornberry 2002

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