UNDRIP. While the right of ‘access to culture’ in the binding ICESCR may seem vague and unspecified,140 the non-binding UNDRIP is clear and specific in its obliga- tions. Since its provisions can be seen as an interpretation of the right of access 137 Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Independent Expert in the Field of Cultural Rights (Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx)’ (2010) Doc A/HRC/14/36. 138 Ibid. 16 para 62. 139 ‘Eckpunkte zum Umgang mit Sammlungsgut aus Kolonialen Kontexten’ (n. 4). 140 Cultural rights are said not to lay any concrete obligation on states but, rather, to impose political commitments. X. Xxxxxxxxxx, ‘Cultural Heritage and the Collective Dimension of Cultural Rights in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ in X. Xxxxxxxxxx (ed) Cultural Rights as Collective Rights, An International Law Perspective (2016) Xxxxx, 157. to culture in as far as it concerns indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage, this is an important instrument.141 Already the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention Concern- ing Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries of 1989 entitled indigenous peoples to rights with regard to their cultural heritage,142 however UNDRIP extends this to specific rights with regard to lost cultural objects.
UNDRIP. Native customary rights, a category of land recognised in the Sarawak Land Code but which has been hard to establish and is at the heart of the land invasion and dispossession of indigenous communities like the Penan. Non-governmental organisation New Straits Times, a Peninsular Malaysia-based national English-language daily newspaper. Accessible online at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/. The Penan Support Group, a coalition of NGOs in East and West Malaysia dedicated to advocating for the rights of the Penans. Parent-Teacher Association, found in schools in Malaysia. A Peninsular Malaysia-based national English-language daily newspaper. Accessible online at xxxx://xxxxxxx.xxx. my/
