Özet:

The status of indigenous peoples and the rights granted to them have been one of the most studied subjects of international law in recent years. Especially since the end of the 20th century, treaties on the rights of these communities and international documents approved by many states have been accepted within the body of various international organizations. These communities, which could not make ground in classical international law because they are not subjects of international law, have been able to benefit from the protection of human rights with the development of modern international law. Apart from individual rights, they now have collective rights such as the right to own traditional lands, the right to establish their own representative institutions as a group, and the right to preserve their own customs and institutions. In addition, with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, for the first time in history, a sub-national group was granted the right of internal self-determination, which expresses the right to freely choose the form of government and permanent sovereignty over natural resources. Today, it is claimed by the doctrine that the Declaration is mostly a part of the customary international law and is therefore considered binding for all states.

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