two international Covenants of 1966

In the case of internal self-determination, Article 1 of the two international Covenants of 1966—International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights—provides people the right to “freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development”. Legal expert Antonio Cassese is of the view that all members of an inhabitant state have the right to express self-determination through “internal-decision making processes”, without disturbing the territorial integrity of sovereign states.10 Indeed, such rights have been recognised in the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples สล็อต