Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation
Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation
The chapter concerns the specific context of the Namibian case of the Hai||om peoples’ recent court battles seeking a legal remedy for the dispossession of their ancestral land that took place in the 1950s. The chapter demonstrates how bringing ancestral land rights claims in front of a court of law can be a means to enforce the rights of indigenous peoples and shed light on the different issues these communities face after being removed from their ancestral lands.
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Odendaal, Willem
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Gilbert, Jérémie
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21 April 2020
Odendaal, Willem
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Gilbert, Jérémie
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Odendaal, Willem, Gilbert, Jérémie and Vermeylen, Saskia
(2020)
Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation.
In,
Odendaal, W. and Werner, W.
(eds.)
‘Neither here nor there’: Indigeneity, marginalisation and land rights in post-independence Namibia.
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The chapter concerns the specific context of the Namibian case of the Hai||om peoples’ recent court battles seeking a legal remedy for the dispossession of their ancestral land that took place in the 1950s. The chapter demonstrates how bringing ancestral land rights claims in front of a court of law can be a means to enforce the rights of indigenous peoples and shed light on the different issues these communities face after being removed from their ancestral lands.
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Published date: 21 April 2020
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Willem Odendaal
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Jérémie Gilbert
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Saskia Vermeylen
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W. Odendaal
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W. Werner
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