Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: A case study of the Hai||om litigation

Jérémie Gilbert

Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: A case study of the Hai||om litigation

Centre for Equality, Justice and Social Change

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	‘Neither here nor there’: Indigeneity, marginalisation and land rights in post-independence Namibia
Place of Publication	Namibia
Publisher	Legal Assistance Center
Pages	121-143
ISBN (Print)	978-99945-61-58-2
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020

Keywords

indigenous peoples
litigation
namibia
land rights

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Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: A case study of the Hai||om litigation. / Gilbert, Jérémie.
‘Neither here nor there’: Indigeneity, marginalisation and land rights in post-independence Namibia. Namibia: Legal Assistance Center , 2020. p. 121-143.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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