Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks as Indigenous Peoples of Crimea in the Modern Conditions

Authors

  • Borys Babin Department of International Law and Comparative Jurisprudence of International Humanitarian University (Odesa, Ukraine)
  • Anna Prykhodko Postgraduate of Legislation Institute of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Keywords:

Annexation, Occupation, Crimean karaites, Krymchaks, Indigenous peoples, UN legal standards

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to determine the qualification of the statute of two indigenous peoples residing in Crimean peninsula (Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks) in conditions of current interstate conflict.

Materials and Methods: Coherent analysis was made according to the common principles of law, norms of international human right law, to the provisions of Ukrainian and Russian legislation and to the present scientific publications devoted to the history and ethnic origin of Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks

Results: Author proved the duty of Ukraine to finish the procedure of official recognizing the Krymchaks and Karaites as the indigenous peoples (with the procedure in analogy for parliamentary Statement on Crimean Tatar People’s statute on March 20, 2014) and to adopt the Law on the Status of Indigenous Peoples fixing the prescriptions of the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the principles of subsidiarity.

Conclusion: collective political, economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous peoples must be defended despite any politic and military circumstances an situations of interstate conflict.

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Published

2017-07-05

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017)

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