The implementation of global standards for Indigenous rights is urgent and essential to the work of reconciliation.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Craig Benjamin is a writer and researcher who works with the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples. SHARES ‘Without a profound change in the relationship between Canada and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, there can be no justice, no healing and no end to the daily violations of Indigenous peoples’ human rights.’
Photo of the 2021 Women’s Memorial March by Jennifer Gauthier.
As uninvited guests on these lands, many of us hold a responsibility to support the council motion.
Matthew Norris is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Northern Saskatchewan and the president of the Urban Native Youth Association. SHARES Vancouver students celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day in 2019. Vancouver council will debate a motion this week to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press.
Our lives are defined by an ever-growing network of responsibilities, a set of relationships that bind us to our families, neighbours, friends and loved ones. Every day we are obliged within this network to care for one another and ensure each other’s well-being.
Canada’s adoption of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights has never been more urgent. By Sheryl Lightfoot and Joshua Nichols 5 Mar 2021 | TheTyee.ca
Sheryl Lightfoot is the Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics at UBC. She is Anishinaabe and a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe.
Joshua Nichols is an assistant professor in the faculty of law at the University of Alberta. He is mixed-rooted Anishinaabe-Métis from Treaty 8 Territory in northeastern B.C. SHARES Police arrest Brenda Michell (Geltiy) on Wet’suwet’en territory in February 2020. ‘Reconciliation is about working toward a just resolution of the fundamental conflict between Canada’s assertion of sovereignty over this land and the fact that Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty came first.’
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Justice Minister David Lametti says Ottawa can build a shared understanding of free, prior and informed consent with Indigenous Peoples into a new law to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Speaking to First Nations chiefs in a virtual forum to discuss the issue, Lametti says free, prior and informed consent is about self-determination, respectful two-way dialogue and meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in decisions that affect them.
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