Indigenous children

This chapter discusses the rights of Indigenous children in international law. There is no single international instrument that is solely focused on the provision of the rights of Indigenous children. This is unlike other discussions of international law provision for children, such as parental child abduction (Chapter 5), intercountry adoption (Chapter 6), or even a general provision of rights such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC): see generally, Chapter 3. The discussion of Indigenous children’s rights in this chapter requires an examination of where the international law relating to the rights of Indigenous peoples meets the rights of children.