Amnesty International report condemns Canada s treatment of Indigenous people, minorities
The report says her death triggered a mobilization against racism in the health system and that throughout the years, “Indigenous land defenders were subjected to threats and violence throughout their territories.”
“It seems like nobody is afraid to act inappropriately because unless Indigenous people are almost whistleblowers, this sort of goes under the carpet and it’s business as usual,” said Nakuset.
Some say the solution comes from testing people’s biases to work towards eliminating racism in the province.
“In different institutions, when they have to do sort of like anti-racism workshops and apparently people sit there with their arms crossed and go ‘hum hum,’ they’re not absorbing the information. And I think that in a field where you’re not supposed to do harm, and you choose to do harm, then it’s the culture,” said Nakuset.
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Amnesty International report condemns Canada s treatment of Indigenous people, minorities
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7 April 2021, 06:01 UTC
COVID-19 has laid bare and exacerbated the systemic inequality, widespread repression and destructive policies that contributed to the Americas becoming the region worst affected by the pandemic, Amnesty International said today upon publishing its annual report.
In the Americas,
Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World’s Human Rights documents how women, refugees, migrants, under-protected health workers, Indigenous Peoples, Black people and other groups historically forgotten by governments have borne the brunt of the pandemic, while some leaders have exploited the crisis to ramp up their assault on human rights.
“Over the last year we’ve witnessed certain leaders in the Americas respond to the pandemic with a mixture of denial, opportunism and contempt for human rights. We cannot continue down the road to ruin, repeating the mistakes that left the region ravaged by inequality, discrimination and destruction, even before COVID-