Amnesty International report states Canada has not adequately protected Aboriginal rights
Amnesty International’s recent report on The State of the World’s Human Rights mentions, among several issues, the prevalence of violence against aboriginal women in Canada and the lack of a plan to address it, and says the government is making “baseless claims” that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples does not apply to Canada [source: CBC].
Growing support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is mentioned as a positive international development, but the Canadian government has not yet endorsed the declaration.
We speak with Craig Benjamin of Amnesty International Canada. Read Amnesty’s blog on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
