"Respect for Sacred Sites: Protecting Indigenous Burial Grounds under International Law": A talk by James Anaya December 10, 2008

S. James Anaya is the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, where he teaches and writes in the fields of international human rights, indigenous peoples' rights, and constitutional law. He has practiced law representing Native American peoples and organizations in matters before United States courts and international institutions and is the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues.

Anaya is the author of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2004), the first book-length treatment on the subject, in which he demonstrates that, while historical trends in international law largely facilitated colonization of indigenous peoples and their lands, modern international law's human rights program has been modestly responsive to indigenous peoples' aspirations to survive as distinct communities in control of their own destinies.

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