Academic Journal
The World Heritage Convention, human rights and Indigenous Peoples: A critical review
| Title: | The World Heritage Convention, human rights and Indigenous Peoples: A critical review |
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| Authors: | Irene Fogarty |
| Source: | Hunter Gatherer Research. 11:173-198 |
| Publisher Information: | Liverpool University Press, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | 11. Sustainability, 0602 languages and literature, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, 06 humanities and the arts, 15. Life on land, 10. No inequality, 16. Peace & justice |
| Description: | This article discusses how the World Heritage Convention contradicts and coalesces with rights to culture and rights of Indigenous Peoples as asserted in international law. It describes the origin and universalistic aims of the Convention, and how the Convention’s state-centrism and Eurocentric heritage discourses have stymied the equitable participation of Indigenous Peoples in World Heritage conservation. However it also asserts that a broadening conceptualisation of World Heritage value alongside an increasing focus on synchronicity with human rights can enable recognition and protection of Indigenous Peoples’ worldviews, rights and cultural continuity under an international legal framework. Finally, the article examines the variance among states parties and the World Heritage Committee in upholding human rights standards, using case studies of five World Heritage sites: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Australia; Pimachiowin Aki and Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada; the Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya; and Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex in Thailand. The article concludes that despite the rights-based turn of recent years, the World Heritage system remains inconsistent in its adherence to international human rights standards. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2056-3264 2056-3256 |
| DOI: | 10.3828/hgr.2024.7 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi...........ed7842dcda21df8a747fd87c59cf97d3 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 20563264 20563256 |
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| DOI: | 10.3828/hgr.2024.7 |