The right to health of indigenous peoples in the industrialized world: a research agenda.

he international community has made great strides in developing a coherent body of international human rights law principles. Far less attention, however, has been focused on the extent to which such principles have been implemented within countries and the processes involved in their implementation. This is particularly evident in relation to economic, social, and cultural rights, not least within wealthy nations. It is often overlooked that most wealthy countries include minority populations that suffer from poor standards of living by any comparison. Such minority populations include Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. These populations still experience relatively poor standards of living, including in the area of health.l Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and all four countries are parties to the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). These treaties incorporate elements of the right to the highest attainable standard of health.2 These countries are also parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which in-