powers certainly refused to recognize that indigenous peoples should have the kind guarantees to life and liberty that they granted(at least nominally) to their own of citizens. Over many centuries these peoples were murdered, raped, tortured, enslaved and exhibited as curiosities on the spurious grounds that they were not fully human and therefore not worthy of rights. They were referred to as"savages child-like', sub-human' or'beasts and widely regarded as being incapable of fully,rational thought (jahoda,1999),all of which made it easier to exclude them from the dominant moral sphere. Given this unpardonable history, it may seem progressive and long overdue that non-Western peoples should now have their rights recognized as equals in our post-colonial' world by global organization like the United Nations