UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

First Nations have been given reason to hope the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will be implemented, together with a requirement for free prior and informed consentfor mining or other natural resource developments affecting First Nations. But recent events have raised ...

The activist who helped draft the seminal 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples said she believed she was targeted over her condemnation in December of alleged rights abuses in the southern region of Mindanao, where Duterte is battling pro-Islamic State gunmen. "They (indigenous ...

The activist who helped draft the seminal 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples said she believed she was targeted over her condemnation in December of alleged rights abuses in the southern region of Mindanao, where Duterte is battling pro-Islamic State gunmen. “They (indigenous ...

The activist who helped draft the seminal 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples said she believed she was targeted over her condemnation in December of alleged rights abuses in the southern region of Mindanao, where Mr Duterte is battling pro-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ...

... also reminds the government of its international commitments to protect indigenous people, since it has signed both the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention 169, and has adopted the United Nations 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In 2016, Canada announced its intention to adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Last year, the government announced its principles for building a new relationship (“Principles Respecting the Government of Canada's Relationship with Indigenous ...

Both Canada and British Columbia have vowed to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). And yet recent natural resource decisions — like the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline or ongoing construction of the Site C dam — have some ...

The UN general assembly in 2007 adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples however India has yet to recognize tribal people as indigenous, said Chaudhary, vice-chairman and Asia representative on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. "Until and unless the country ...

She worked for years as a community organizer on her home island of Luzon, and helped lead the successful push to get the U.N. General Assembly to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. Tauli-Corpuz also chaired the Cordillera Peoples Allliance, a federation of indigenous ...