Adopting UN Indigenous rights declaration requires reform of Canada’s laws: AFN – CBC

National Chief Perry Bellegarde says Canada’s laws ‘rest on the foundations of colonialism and racism’

May 12, 2016

The Assembly of First Nations says implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will require that Canadian laws and policies be reformed.

Canada removed its permanent objector status to the declaration earlier this week.

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, the declaration consists of 46 articles that recognize Indigenous Peoples’ basic human rights, as well as rights to self-determination, language, equality and land, among others.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/afn-national-chief-declaration-speech-1.3578940