Karen Engle Addresses The Rights Of Indigenous People

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Questions that need answers. Answers that need to be discussed heavily. In Essay 22 of Human Rights in the World Community Issues and Action, author Karen Engle, addresses the rights of Indigenous People. Engle had a colleague that thought that adequate protection was given to the rights of indigenous people without the right to culture or self-determination. Advocates would argue otherwise. For starters, the words “right to culture or self-determination” has loose meanings. Once the Article 3 of the 1993 draft was established for the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) there was controversy not only because of the term “self determination” but also because there were multiple attempts to limit what that meant