ABSTRACT
Extreme forms of human rights violations falling under jus cogens such as genocide, slavery, non-refoulement, denial of self-determination, racial discrimination and the like illustrate such convergences of claims based on commonly shared urgent needs commonly touching upon peoples' sheer survival. Indigenous cosmogenic perspectives such as Complementarity and Good Living devote considerable space for women's and intergenerational rights to be realised whereas the latter uneasily fit with pre-existing categories and clearer lines or conceptual boundaries common in Western legal language. Indigenous concepts and world views only found their way into international law and societal debates having undergone forms of epistemological oppression as far as history/ies are concerned or conventional education systems which adopted discriminatory agendas, consciously or unconsciously. Corporal inviolability is concerned alongside a person's free-will becoming illustrative in situations of long-term capture, slavery(-like) conditions and other forms of structural oppression affecting indigenous peoples. While paying tribute to indigenous collective infamous 'customs and traditions' internal realities go unobserved, unnoticed and unmentioned.
