Current Problems: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (43-44)

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April 18, 2024

BCAFN Regional Chief Terry Teegee Advocates for Stronger Measures in Canada’s UN Declaration Act Action Plan
NationTalk: Lenape (Lenapehoking) Traditional Territory/New York City, NY, USA – BCAFN Regional Chief Terry Teegee addressed the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and urgently called upon Canada to develop a comprehensive, whole-of-government framework to guide the implementation of the United Nations Declaration Act (UNDA) and it’s Action Plan. In addition, he called for...

August 2, 2023

Unravelling Canada’s UN Indigenous action plan
NationTalk: Law360 Canada: The National Action Plan, the latest initiative on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples(UNDRIP) implementation by the federal government, pledges to begin the process of incorporating UNDRIP into Canadian law. However, the plan is presently seen less as a blueprint for change and more as a source of increasing concern due...

July 14, 2023

Former justice minister pays surprise visit to AFN assembly, lambastes Liberals’ UNDRIP action plan
APTN News: Jody Wilson-Raybould has written three books about her time in politics, and her name is being circulated as a potential candidate to replace recently deposed AFN national chief RoseAnne Archibald. Jody Wilson-Raybould told the Assembly of First Nations the Trudeau government could do better on UNDRIP. Photo: Fraser Needham/APTN News  Former attorney general...

June 22, 2023

Federal action plan for UNDRIP lacks input from rights holders, the treaty nations, says Crowchild
“At no time has Canada come to talk to our treaty peoples, the rights holders. We’ve never consented to what’s on their national plan and on how they’re going to implement it.” — Tsuut’ina Nation Councillor Regena Crowchild Tsuut’ina Nation Councillor Regena Crowchild did not mark National Indigenous Peoples Day by celebrating the newly released...

June 22, 2023

Ottawa releases action plan to implement UNDRIP, despite calls for more consultation
By The Canadian PressJun 22, 2023  Government criticized for releasing the plan on National Indigenous Day. APTN News: The federal government released its action plan on Wednesday to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The government had presented its draft to chiefs gathered for a meeting of the Assembly of First...

April 12, 2023

Trudeau says premiers’ claims about natural resources power grab have ‘no grounding in truth’
Premiers criticized justice minister for saying Ottawa will look at resource agreement CBC News: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba of misinterpreting remarks by a federal minister on whether Ottawa might review agreements that give those provinces control of natural resources. “Let me be very clear. The minister of...

April 6, 2023

Assembly of First Nations wants federal UNDRIP plan overhauled, slams consultation process
Emergency resolution says there’s been ‘grossly inadequate time’ for First Nations to provide input CBC News: The Assembly of First Nations is urging the Canadian government to overhaul its action plan on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), after a working draft of the plan met with disappointment and resistance at...

April 5, 2023

Justice minister pitches Assembly of First Nations with ‘imperfect’ UNDRIP plan
Draft plan gets chilly reception at chiefs assembly in Ottawa CBC News: Justice Minister David Lametti admits his Liberal government’s draft plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples isn’t perfect but he wants First Nations to support it anyway. “The draft plan is just that: It’s a draft. It is...

April 3, 2023

First Nations chiefs to debate Trudeau government’s draft UNDRIP action plan
Assembly of First Nations to meet this week in Ottawa CBC News: As the Trudeau Liberals approach eight years in power, David Lametti acknowledges much is riding on his government’s upcoming plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canada. The Liberals will paint a detailed picture of their current...

March 13, 2023

BC First Nations highlight human rights concerns to UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, seeking resolution through UN mechanisms
NationTalk: (xʷməθkʷəyə̓m (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – This week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (SRRIP), Francisco Calí Tzay met with various First Nations and Indigenous organisations in BC, including representatives of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, the Office of The Wet’suwet’en, former Chief of Neskonlith Indian Band,...

March 10, 2023

‘Appalling’ legacy of residential schools tops UN Indigenous rights rapporteur’s early findings
Guatemalan expert’s Canada visit ends, report expected in September CBC News: Despite positive measures taken by Canada, Indigenous people continue to face obstacles to fully enjoying their individual and collective human rights in this country, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples says. José Francisco Calí Tzay delivered his preliminary findings...

March 2, 2023

NWAC to UN Special Rapporteur: The Genocide Against Indigenous WG2STGD+ People Continues with Little Progress Made
NationTalk: Native Womens’s Association of Canada: Ottawa – UN Special Rapporteur José Francisco Calí Tzay received a mixed message about Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender-Diverse (WG2STGD+) People’s progress on human rights in Canada from the Native Women’s Association (NWAC) during a meeting yesterday, March 1. The good news is that Canada is making...

March 1, 2023

UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples starts 10-day visit to Canada
Visit will focus on MMIWG, unmarked burials at former residential schools, and implementing UNDRIP CBC News: For the first time since being appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay is making an official visit to Canada. Calí Tzay, who is Mayan Kaqchikel from Guatemala, was appointed...

July 18, 2022

How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada
This story is a collaboration between Floodlight, The Narwhal and the Guardian. The Narwhal – Internal documents explain why oil and gas interests would benefit from a key Indigenous declaration being ‘defeated’. A U.S.-based libertarian coalition has spent years pressuring the Canadian government to limit how much Indigenous communities can push back on energy development on their own land,...

May 3, 2022

Department of Justice states that UNDRIP is ‘Interpretive aid only” and cannot override Canadian law
APTN National News: The Canadian government claims the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is an “interpretative aid only” that can’t be used to strike down federal laws even though Parliament has passed legislation requiring they be in sync. Lawyers for Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) made the argument in response to a Federal...

December 11, 2021

24th anniversary Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa decision
Union of BC Indian Chiefs – UBCIC marks the 24th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ground-breaking Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa decision, which confirmed the continuing existence of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan Title and Rights, contrary to provincial claims that their Title, if it had existed, had been extinguished. On December 11, 1997 the six members of...

December 4, 2020

Six provinces urged Ottawa to delay tabling UNDRIP legislation, but were rebuffed by Justice Minister
The Globe and Mail: Ministers from six provinces asked the federal government last month to delay legislation that would apply the principles of the foremost international commitment on the rights of Indigenous peoples to Canadian laws, but were rebuffed by Justice Minister David Lametti. Earlier this fall, the federal government sent a draft of the...

December 3, 2020

Letter requesting UNDRIP delay
National Post – On Nov. 27, Indigenous relations ministers from Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick sent a joint letter to David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett that protested the six-week time window they say they were given for input on the draft bill...

August 17, 2020

Québec Government opposition
NationTalk – Premier François Legault indicated that, on the one hand, the Indigenous Nations must be recognized, but on the other hand, there is a risk of “giving” them a veto over Québec’s development. The Assembly of First Nations Quebec and Labrador proposes to begin discussions between the provincial government and First Nations right now...
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