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Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik

(i) Right to self-determination, representation, and full participation;
(ii) Recognition of existing treaty arrangements with indigenous
peoples;
(iii) Right to determine own citizenry and obligations of citizenship;
(iv) Right to collective, as well as individual, human rights;
(v) Right to live in freedom, peace, and security without military
intervention or involvement;
(vi) Right to religious freedom and protection of sacred sites and
objects, including ecosystem, plants, and animals;
(vii) Right to restitution and redress for cultural, intellectual,
religious or spiritual property that is taken or used without
authorization;
(viii) Right to free and prior informed consent;
(ix) Right to control access and exert ownership over plants,
animals and minerals vital to their cultures;
(x) Right to own, develop, control and use the lands and
territories, including the total environment of the lands, air,
waters, coastal areas, sea-ice, flora and fauna and other
resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise
occupied or used;
(xi) Right to special measures to control, develop and protect
their sciences, technologies and cultural manifestations,
including human and other genetic resources, seeds,
medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora,
oral tradition, literature, designs and visual and performing arts;
(xii) Right to just and fair compensation for any such activities
that have adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural
or spiritual impact.
Legally binding or not, the effectiveness of all these numerated
rights – i.e. moral claims - depends in the last analysis on the strength
of their being recognized and respected as legitimate in society. Thailand

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