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I was perhaps the first, at a United Nations meeting, to predict the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, Chairman, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists; Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia; President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, Australia.
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Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. See also M. Kirby, “Peoples’ Rights and Self-Determination”, in A. E. S. Tay (ed.), Rights, Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples — a special issue of the Bulletin of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy, 18 (61): p. 25 at 27 (1993).
See C. Tomuschat, “Self-Determination in a Post-Colonial World”, in C. Tomuschat (ed.), Modern Law of Self-Determination (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993), p. 1. The resolution is 1524 (XV).
(1971) 16 International Court of Justice Reports 31.
(1975) 12 International Court of Justice Reports 31ff.
H. Hannum, “Rethinking Self-Determination”, (1993) 34 Va J. Int Law 1 at 5.
M. Koskenniemi, “National Self-Determination Today: Problems of Legal Theory and Practice”, (1994) 43 ICLQ 241, at 245.
Ibid., at 246.
R. Y. Jennings and A. Watts (eds), Oppenheim’s International Law, 9th edn, vol. 1 (London: Longman, 1992), at 715. This point is made by J. Crawford, “Democracy in International Law” (Inaugural Lecture, Cambridge, 1993), at 10.
Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 264.
See Crawford, supra, note 8.
R. Falk, “The Content of Self-Determination” in R. McCorquodale and N. Orosz (eds), Tibet: The Position in International Law (London: Serindia, 1994), at 81.
Ibid., at 82.
Ibid.
Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 252.
A. Etzioni, “The Evils of Self-Determination”, (1992–3) 89 Foreign Policy 21 at 21.
H. Hannum, supra, note 5, at 25, where the reservation by the Government of India is noted, as are the formal objections thereto of the Netherlands and of Germany. See also Tomuschat, supra, note 2, at 3.
Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 260.
Ibid., at 250.
R. S. White, “Self-Determination, Time for a Re-assessment?”, (1981) 28 Netherlands Int. L Rev. 147.
Etzioni, supra, note 15.
For example, see Amnesty International, Indonesia and East Timor — Power and Impunity (London, 1994) esp. 110ff.
Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 258.
UNESCO, Report of the Meeting of Experts on Further Study of the Rights of Peoples, Paris, February 1990. The description of a “people” provided by the experts is found in McCorquodale and Orosz, supra, note 11, at 145. Cf. Mandla (Sewa Singh) v. Dowell Lee & Ors, [1983] 2 AC 548 (H.L.) at 562.
For example, see P. Macklem, “Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Constitution: Lessons for Australia?” (1994) 5 Public Law Rev. 11. See also Mabo v. Queensland [No. 2] (1992), 175 Cth. Law Reps 1 (High Ct of Aust.).
See Davis et al., “Proceedings of the Conference on African-Americans and the Right to Self-Determination” in (1993) 17 Hamline L. Rev. 1.
Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 246.
Ibid., at 256.
United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace, UN Doc. A/47/277; S/24111 (17 June 1994), at 5 (Paris 17–19). See also Koskenniemi, supra, note 6, at 256ff.
See International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, Report on LIDLIP’s Activities at the 46th Session of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva, July–August 1994. See also C. Meindersma, “Legal Issues Surrounding Population Transfers in Conflict Situations”, (1994) 41 Netherlands Int. L Rev. 31.
Hannum, supra, note 5, at 69.
The new Premier of Québec, Mr J. Parizeau, in his first press conference after the 1994 provincial election, announced the intention to conduct a referendum on the separation of Québec in 1995. See The Age (Melbourne) 16 September 1994, p. 9.
Tomuschat, supra, note 2.
Hannum, supra, note 5, at 67.
Tomuschat, supra, note 2, at 20.
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Kirby, M. (1996). Self-Determination: A Consideration of the Present and a Glimpse into the Future. In: Clark, D., Williamson, R. (eds) Self-Determination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24918-3_22
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