The next steps for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

A federal action plan to implement UNDRIP will not resolve some major challenges in the provincial and territorial realm. We need to bring all levels of government and Indigenous Peoples together to ensure coherent national standards.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, pictured, attends a press conference on June 21 with Justice Minister David Lametti and Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal to announce the UN Declaration Act Action Plan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

June 26, 2023

OTTAWA—On this day in 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, Calif., “We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” the preamble states.

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