Description
Book SynopsisIntroducing the NegevBedouin land issue from the international indigenous land rights perspective, this comparative study suggests options for the recognition of their land. The book demonstrates that the Bedouin land dispossession, like many indigenous peoples', progressed through several phases that included eviction and displacement, legislation, and judicial decisions that support acts of dispossession and deny the Bedouin's traditional land rights.
Examining the Mawat legal doctrine on which the State and the Court rely on to deny Bedouin land rights, this volume introduces the relevant international law protecting indigenous land rights and shows how the limitations of this law prevent any meaningful protection of Bedouin land rights. In the second part of the work, the Aborigines' land in Australia is introduced as an example of indigenous peoples'' successful struggle for their traditional land rights. The final chapter analyzes the basic elements of judicial r
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Dispossession of Bedouin land 4. Protection of indigenous peoples’ land rights under international and regional systems 5. Recognition of indigenous peoples’ land rights 6. Land recognition: application of the customary land rights model in the Bedouin case
