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The West’s largest green energy storage project would destroy a Yakama sacred site. Now, the nation is fighting back.

Seventy-three years after the United Nations adopted the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forty years after the Organization of African Unity (OAU) adopted its own African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the human rights situation

Recently Queensland police recognised the cultural rights of Wangan and Jagalingou people to conduct ceremony under provisions of a Human Rights Act. What does this mean for other Traditional Owners?

Message from Our Lady of Guadalupe CirclePentecost 2021Send forth your spirit and renew the face of the Earth (Ps. 104)Greetings and blessings on the Feast of Pentecost,As Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, focused on the work of reconciliation between Indigenous and all Canadians, we want to renew and celebrate the Spirit of Pentecost. Still relatively new as a coalition we are

A draft Cabinet paper has been prepared setting out the next steps the government could take in response to the report on achieving the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The government-commissioned report, He Puapua, suggested a separate Māori Parliament or upper house, separate court and justice systems and Māori ownership of foreshore and seabed, as well as recommendations on cultural rights and equity. In 2019 it was handed to Nanaia Mahuta, who was Māori Development minister at the time, but it was never signed off by Cabinet. The ACT Party has now revealed Māori Development Min...

KENORA, Ont. — Thirty thousand households and businesses in Northwestern Ontario are receiving postcards from a group of organizations opposed to nuclear waste disposal in Northwestern Ontario. We the Nuclear Free North calls itself an alliance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous volunteers and organizations who believe the risks of transporting and burying nuclear waste are too high. Its delivering information cards outlining its concerns to residents living between Upsala and the Manitoba bo...

In Ontario, opponents of nuclear waste disposal join forces  Opponents of nuclear waste disposal join forces  https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/opponents-of-nuclear-waste-disposal-join-forces-3644864 ‘Ignace should not get to decide’ whether to accept a storage site, a spokesperson says. By: Gary Rinne   19 Apr 21, KENORA, Ont. — Thirty thousand households and businesses in Northwestern Ontario are receiving postcards from a group of organizations opposed to nuclear waste di...

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On December 3, 2020, the federal government introduced Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. 1 If passed by Parliament, Bill C-15 will provide a roadmap for the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ("UNDRIP") in Canada. THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES UNDRIP is a statement of principles adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. 2 UNDRIP is considered "t...