An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous peoples became a major focus of human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, international development and finance institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank, and indigenous and other community-based organizations.

Scholars and activists began paying greater attention to the struggles between Fourth World peoples and First, Second, and Third World states because of illegal actions of nation-states against indigenous peoples, indigenous groups' passive and active resistance to top-down development, and concerns about the impacts of transnational forces including what is now known as globalization.

This volume offers a clear message for genocide scholars and others concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide: much greater attention must be paid to the plight of all peoples, indigenous and otherwise, no matter how small in scale, how little-known, how "invisible" or hidden from view.

Reviews
"[T]his format will provide anyone-students or human rights scholars new to the issue-with an excellent introduction to the countless examples of human rights violations (or genocidal state action, if you wish) that must be incorporated into the overarching growing field of human rights and humanitarian studies. This text is recommended for all human rights libraries." - Don Conway-Long, Human Rights Review



Book Information
ISBN 9781412814959
Author Robert Hitchcock
Format Hardback
Page Count 314
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 544g