Chapter Calls for New Laws to Honour UNDRIP

February 25, 2019

The Council of Canadians including the NWT Chapter has called on the Legislative Assembly to to embed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in post-devolution land and resource legislation.

“Given the status of the various pieces of post-devolution legislation now is the time to truly make a meaningful commitment to UNDRIP and for the NWT Legislative Assembly to be the first jurisdiction in Canada to embed it in our post-devolution legislation. Embedding UNDRIP in our legislation would be consistent with the unanimous endorsement of the Declaration by the 16th NWT Legislative Assembly in 2008, when we were the first jurisdiction in Canada to embrace UNDRIP.”

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