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.
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.’