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Promoting positive human rights outcomes for Indigenous Peoples: Key considerations for UK policymakers
Adopting and embedding a human rights-based approach across all UK policy, legislation, official development aid and foreign policy engagement that could affect indigenous peoples is a prerequisite to achieving positive human rights and environmental outcomes beyond Britain’s borders. Such actions are urgently needed for the UK to demonstrate leadership in ensuring longer-term global prosperity and equity.
Key Recommendations
- Publicly endorse the collective human rights of indigenous peoples ...
- Ensure all UK policies, laws and funded programmes are premised on a human rights-based approach ...
- Enact a ‘Business, Human Rights and Environment Act’ ...
- Increase direct funding to indigenous organisations ...
- Promote the individual and collective rights of indigenous women ...
- Publicly recognise, apologise and make reparations for the historical wrongs ...
- Proactively support indigenous, land and human rights defenders ...
- Place human rights clauses and conditionalities in trade and investment agreements, official development assistance and official development finance ...