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The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2007 has been acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of indigenous rights. In this book, 22 papers in four chapters deal with this instrument with institutional, thematic, substantive, and regional perspectives of indigenous peoples and rights. Most interesting is the paper by Patrick Glenn of McGill University in Montreal on "The Three Ironies of the UN Declaration the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." The first irony is the use of international law by the nonbinding Declaration. International law as it stand now is the law between nations and international bodies, and not groups of peoples as a minority of state citizens. We still have to wait for a more "humanizing" international law that also recognizes indigenous peoples. The second irony is the idiom of the declaration as "rights," which, to common Western understanding, are individual rather than group rights. The Declaration is thus an "imperialist" instrument that had to use common terms of law to be understood by the states as addressees. The third irony is the opposition of those states-such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States-that have done a lot for their indigenous inhabitants and that, by now, also signed the Declaration. There are 21 other very stimulating and well-written papers by specialists of international law and the rights of indigenous peoples.
The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2007 has been acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of indigenous rights. In this book, 22 papers in four chapters deal with this instrument with institutional, thematic, substantive, and regional perspectives of indigenous peoples and rights. Most interesting is the paper by Patrick Glenn of McGill University in Montreal on "The Three Ironies of the UN Declaration the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." The first irony is the use of international law by the nonbinding Declaration. International law as it stand now is the law between nations and international bodies, and not groups of peoples as a minority of state citizens. We still have to wait for a more "humanizing" international law that also recognizes indigenous peoples. The second irony is the idiom of the declaration as "rights," which, to common Western understanding, are individual rather than group rights. The Declaration is thus an "imperialist" instrument that had to use common terms of law to be understood by the states as addressees. The third irony is the opposition of those states-such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States-that have done a lot for their indigenous inhabitants and that, by now, also signed the Declaration. There are 21 other very stimulating and well-written papers by specialists of international law and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Under the postwar American occupation of Germany, art produced by the Staffel der bildenden Künstler (German Combat Artist Unit) of Nazi Germany was sent to US military sites for storage under the direction of Captain Gordon Gilkey. Gilkey was head of the German War Art Project, the arm of the Historical Division of the US army tasked with confiscating German “propaganda and war art.” This art, considered a dangerous instrument of Nazi revival, was not protected by laws prohibiting art looting. Yet American officers were sympathetic to many of the paintings created by combat artists, and the German combat artists themselves were torn about their roles in Nazism, perceiving themselves as either victims or survivors merely attempting to make a living. This article traces the history of this artwork from its seizure in postwar Germany through its internment in the United States up to later attempts in the 1950s and 1980s to restitute the works to their creators.
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