Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, an open online course, examines how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, and how they have been re-shaping and gradually decolonizing these systems at international and national levels. The self-paced course is free and open to all on edX.org with an optional paid verified certificate program.

Indigenous Peoples—which number more than 476 million in some 90 countries—continue to face threats to their physical and cultural existence. Centered on the themes laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the course explores how Indigenous Peoples have contributed to some of the most important contemporary debates, including human rights, development, and climate change.

The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights online course was produced by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).