Jus Cogens Draft 2022

International law forms the foundation of international relations and establishes norms and principles that are binding on all states. One of the highest legal sources within international law is Jus Cogens norms, which are universally applicable and cannot be deviated from. The Jus Cogens Draft of 2022, developed by the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC), represents a significant development. This draft has far-reaching implications,

What is Indigeneity

Many people are inseparably linked to the northern hemisphere. Not because they settled here or established their business base here, but because they were born here. Because they are native, indigenous, and in the truest sense of the word, they were born here. Today’s society has almost completely forgotten these roots and is unaware of the significance unaware of this gap in knowledge. Hans-Friedrich Bergmann put it this way:

The Importance of Indigenous Peoples Today

Following an inner urge, desire and feeling, as well as being fully aware of the responsibility they feel towards each other and towards their ancestors, they have Germanic roots in the north. They feel connected to their ancestors, the traditional and the values embedded in them, and continue these traditions in the present, so that the ethnocultural identity can be developed and further developed.