Annex
Rights of the Sungai Eloi Tombonuo Community
a) International Laws
United Nations Declaration
Indigenous Peoples, UNDRIP
on
the
Rights
of
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their
distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise
occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other
resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this
regard.
Article 26
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources
which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the
lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional
ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they
have otherwise acquired.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories
and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the
customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the Indigenous peoples
concerned.
Article 27
States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with Indigenous
peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent
process, giving due recognition to Indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions,
customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of
Indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources,
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