Human Rights
 
Indigenous Thesaurus of
Human Rights Terms

Main Categories

1. Lands & Territorial Rights
2. Environment & Natural Resources
3. Culture, Heritage & Spirituality
4. Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual property
5. Socio-economic & Development
6. Specific groups
7. Health
8. Education
9. Labour
10. Women
11. Children & Youth
12. Human Rights
13. Politics, Law & Governance
14. U.N. Systems, Instruments & Agencies
15. U.N. Documents & Dιclarations
16. Treaties & Other Constructive Arrangements

 

1. Lands & Territorial Rights
 
Agricultural lands
Ancestral domain
Ancestral lands
Ancestral rights
Archaeological sites
Arctic lands
Border Conflict
Ceremonial land
Coastal sea-beds
Collective heritage
Collective land
Collective ownership
Collective rights
Community lands
Cultural development
Cultural practices
Cultural sites
Custodians
Customary land
Customary title
Degradation of land
Degradation of soil
Demarcation
Desert
Displacement
Exploitation
Expropriation
Fertile land
Food security
Foreshore
Homeland
Human settlements
Indigenous Peoples land
Land administration
Land claims
Land invasion
Land title
Military occupation
Mineral exploration
Natural resources
Physical need
Property rights
Protected areas
Relocation
Reservations
Sacred sites
Sovereignty
Spiritual rights
Territorial integrity
Traditional territories
Treaties
Tropical forests
Wildlife
 

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2. Environment & Natural Resources
 

Article 8J of CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity)
Biological diversity
Biological resources
Biotechnology
Climate
Coasts
Common heritage
Conservation
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Dams
Deforestation
Desertification
Ecological uniqueness
Ecology
Ecosystems
Environmental degradation
Environmental disaster
Environmental justice
Environmental rights
Extractive Industry
Fauna
Fisheries
Flora
Foreshore
Forests
Genetic resources
Kyoto Protocol
Lakes
Land
Medicinal herbs
Medicine
Mountains
Natural resources
Plants
Preservation
Protected areas
Rainforests
Reefs
Resource Management
Rivers
Seabed
Soil
Streams
Sustainable use
Traditional knowledge
Trees
Tropical forests
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Waters
Wetlands
Wildlife
 

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3. Culture, Heritage & Spirituality
 

Arts
Ceremonies
Chants
Common heritage
Customs
Dance
Deities
Dressing
Festivals
Fishing
Folklore
Food
Gathering systems
Heritage
Heroes
Hunting
Legends
Marriages
Music
Myths
Religion
Religious study
Rituals
Sacred sites
Sacred symbols
Songs
Spiritual practices
Totems
Traditional knowledge
Traditions
Values
 

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4. Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual Property
 

Agricultural knowledge
Artifacts
Article 8J of CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity)
Arts
Astronomy
Benefits sharing
Bio piracy
Biotechnology
Carving
Convention on Biological Diversity
Crafts
Custodians
Designs
Fishing
Genetic resources
History
Hunting
Indigenous peoples technology
Innovation
Language
Laws
Legends
Medicine
Myths
Navigation
Oral Traditions
Practices
Seeds
Songs
Stories
Textile
 

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5. Socio-Economic & Development
 

Agreements
Agricultural practice
Aid
Barter
Commercial fishery
Commercial hunting
Community rights
Compensation
Development
Economic administration
Farming
Fishing
Food gathering
Food security
Harvesting
Logging
Multi-national corporations
Natural resources
Partnership
Pastorals
Plantation
Projects
Seaports
Sustainable development
Technology
Textile
Tourism
Trade
Trans-national corporations
 

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6. Specific Groups
 

Administrative authorities
Alliances
Artisans
Artists
Children
Cooperative groups
Coordination
Craft persons
Custodians
Elders
Farmers
Fishermen
Forest peoples
Hunters
Immigrants
Indigenous Peoples Caucus
Indigenous Peoples of Africa
Indigenous Peoples of Arctic
Indigenous Peoples of Asia
Indigenous Peoples of Central America
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Indigenous Peoples of Russia
Indigenous Peoples of South America

Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Region
Indigenous Peoples organizations
Institutions
Lawyers
Medicine people
Minorities
Natives
Non-governmental organizations
Paramilitary
Pastoralists
Persons with disabilities
Refugees
Spiritual leaders
States
Teachers
Textile persons
Trade unions
Traditional authorities
Tribal leaders
Tribal people
Women
Youth
 

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7.Health
 

Access to health care
Adolescent health
AIDS
Alcoholism
Birth control
Dance
Diabetes
Diseases
Diseases, degenerative
Diseases, geriatric
Diseases, venereal
Drinking water supply
Drugs – basic & generic
Food security
Health systems
Herbal medicine
Hunger
Indigenous health knowledge
Infant mortality
Infections
Malaria

Malnutrition
Medicine
Medicine Peoples
Mental illness / health
Midwifes
Nutrition
Physical integrity
Primary health care system
Right to food
Sacred healing places
Sanitation
Social well being
Spiritual guides
Spiritual malaise
Traditional knowledge
Traditional medicine
Trauma
Tuberculosis
Waters
Wildlife
 

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8. Education
 

Agricultural research
Arts
Astronomy
Bilingual education
Cultural study
Education
History
Information
Inter-cultural education
Journalism
Language

Literature
Media
Multicultural education
Navigation
Oral knowledge
Philosophies
Right to Education
Sacred sites
Schools
Teachers
Traditional education system
 

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9. Labour
 

Capacity building
Child labour
Employment
Farmers
Fishermen
Forced labours
ILO Convention 107
ILO Convention 169
Labour conditions
Labour health & safety at work

Labour standards
Migrant labours
Mining labours
Salary
Slavery
Strikes
Trade unions
Traditional occupations
Unemployment
Vocational training
 

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10. Women
 

Abortion
Childcare
Communication
Education, Women
Empowerment, Women
Gender discrimination
Health, Women
Leaders, Women
Maternity benefits
Midwifes
Motherhood

Participation, Women
Religious leaders
Sexual exploitation
Slavery
Traditional knowledge
Traditional medicine
Women labours
Women network
Women practitioners
Women Rights
Women’s cooperative

 

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11. Children & Youth
 

Adoption
Child abuse
Child rights
Child slavery
Cultural rights
Decision-making, Youth
Economic rights
Education, Child
Employment, Youth
Freedom, Child
Girl Child
Health, Child
ILO Convention on the
Rights of the Child

Infant mortality
Labour, Child
Mal nourishment
Participation, Youth
Rural children
Sexual exploitation
Social rights
Street children
Traditional values
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Urban children
Youth organizations
Youth right

 

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12. Human Rights
 

Child rights
Civil Rights
Collective rights
Cultural rights
Discrimination
Economic rights
Environmental rights
Freedom of expression
Freedom of religion
Fundamental rights
Indigenous peoples rights
Intellectual property rights

Political rights
Property rights
Right to development
Right to education
Right to employment
Right to health
Right to self-determination
Social Rights
Special rapporteur
Standard setting activity
Territorial rights
Women’s rights

 

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13. Politics, Laws & Governance
 

Agreements
Autonomy
Citizenship
Civil rights
Code of conduct
Commercial law
Communal land ownership
Conflict resolution
Constitution
Constructive arrangements
Corporations
Criminal law
Cultural rights
Customary legal systems
Decision-making
Demarcation
Development laws
Economic rights
Fair trial
Federalism
Free, prior & informed consent
Fundamental rights
Government policy

Indigenous institutions
International instruments
Judicial system
Juridical status
Legal aid
Legislation
Local affairs
Patent laws
Political participation
Political Parties
Political rights
Political status
Power sharing
Property ownership
Protection
Religious freedom
Self-governance
Self-identification
Social rights
Sovereignty
States
Territorial integrity
Traditional Congress

 

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14. United Nations Systems, Instruments & Agencies
 

Security Council
International Court of Justice

General Assembly:


• Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on Decolonisation

Programmes & Funds:

• UN Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
• UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
• UN Development Programme (UNDP)
• UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
• UN Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD)
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Other UN Entities:

• Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
          ▪ UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
          ▪ UN Voluntary Fund for the International Decade of Indigenous Populations
• Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

Research & Training Institutes:

• UN International Research & Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
• UN Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR)
• UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Human Rights Treaty Bodies:

• Human Rights Committee (HRC)
• Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (CESCR)
• Committee Against Torture (CAT)
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Economic & Social Council:

Functional Commissions:
• Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
     ▪ Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
     ▪ Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development
     ▪ Special Rapporteur to undertake a study on indigenous peoples' permanent sovereignty over natural resources
     ▪ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
     ▪ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
     ▪ Sub-Commission on the Promotion & Protection of Human Rights of the CHR
          - Pre-sessional Working Group on Indigenous Populations
          - Working Group on the Administration of Justice
          - Working Group on Indigenous Populations
          - United Nations Working Group on Slavery
• Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
• Commission for Social Development (CSD)
• Commission on Science & Technology for Development (CSTD)
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
• Commission on Population & Development (CPD)
• Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations (CONGO)

Other Subsidiary Bodies:
• UN Forum on Forests (UNFF)
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Specialized Agencies:

• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• World Bank (WB)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Tourism Organization (WTO)

UN INSTRUMENTS:
• Charter of the United Nations
• UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR) (1966)
• UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) (1966)
• Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
• UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• UN Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• UN Convention Against Torture (CAT)
• UN Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• ILO Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour
• ILO Convention 107
• ILO Convention 169
• UN Convention on Biological Diversity
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• UN Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR)
• UN Convention to Combat Desertification
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes & their Disposal
• Kyoto Protocol
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
• Trade related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)

 

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15. UN Documents & Declarations
 

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• UN Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries & Peoples
• UN Declaration on the Elimination of All forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (1981)
• UN Declaration regarding Article 14 of UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination (1963)
• Declaration on Race & Racial Prejudice
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
• UN Declaration on the Right to Development
• UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity
• UN Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED)
• Rio Declaration on Environment & Development
• Agenda 21
• Durban Declaration & Programme of Action
• Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development
• UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Declaration of the World Summit on Physical Education
• Vienna Declaration & programme of Action

UN Secretariat
• Office of the Secretary General
• Office of Legal Affairs
• Department of Political Affairs
• Department of Economic & Social Affairs
• Department of Public Information

 

 

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16. Treaties & Other Constructive Arrangements
 

• Bilateral Treaties & Accords
• Legally binding
• Treaty claim
• Treaty obligations
• Treaty relationship
• Treaty study
• Treaty violations

 

 

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