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CALGARY, AB and NEW YORK, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Reconciliation Energy Transition Inc. (RETI), and Sumitomo Corporation, through its subsidi

/PRNewswire/ -- Reconciliation Energy Transition Inc. ("RETI"), and Sumitomo Corporation, through its subsidiary Ammolite Carbon Sequestration (Collectively...

OTTAWA, ON, May 2, 2024 /CNW/ – Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples is our most important one. As partners with the original inhabitants and stewards of Canada’s lands and waters, we know that we need to make good on our commitments and responsibilities. This starts with trust, transparency, and accountability. As part of Canada’s constitutional […]

Ontario MPPs can now speak Indigenous languages at Queen's Park, after previously being limited to English or French. Language speakers say it's a small step on the path toward reconciliation, but means the world to those working to preserve traditional languages lost to Canada's colonial systems.

MLAs voted Wednesday in favour of making housing a fundamental right in N.W.T., bringing it in line with national and international law.

Until federal politicians start “valuing people in their own homes”, intangible cultural heritage will remain misunderstood and underappreciated, said Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville, author of Stored in the Bones.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the Commission), at its 65th Ordinary Session held from 21 October to 10 November 2019, in Banjul, The Gambia, adopte

Call for inputs on the African Declaration on the Promotion of the Role of Human Rights Defenders and their Protection in Africa

"It was just something to do...like getting your hair braided," says Kayowe Mune, describing the mindset held by many communities about female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Mune, now 42, is a content creator based in Toronto and was cut when she was six years old, as part of what’s known as

Three decades on, she is representing a teenage girl before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In what might have been a case study for her law students back in New York, the court will soon rule on the rights of “uncontacted” peoples for the first time.