Keywords: Canadian Indigenous peoples; Canadian Museum of Human Rights; national museums; redress; residential schools apology; United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesRuth B. PhillipsJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Some 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were forcibly sent to residential schools, where many suffered abuse and even death. Article content The findings in Kamloops and Cowessess have sparked national outrage and grief, and has led to mounting calls for the federal government...
The apology lifts the weight of burden off of the redressing parties’ shoulders, allowing them to suddenly state, “Not my problem.” The attempt to make amends can are just words- nothing more. Actions speak louder than words and healing is not an easy process, as First Nations journalist...
[the Caring Society], a national non-profit organization providing services to First Nations1 child welfare organizations, took the historic step of holding Canada accountable before the Canadian Human Rights Commission for its current treatment of over 160,000 First Nations children resident on ...
Instead, I think we need to learn from it, to learn from both the greatness, the audacity of vision and the generosity of spirit of former leaders. It was John Macdonald who proposed extending the franchise including to First Nations people, long before that was popular, ...
In a speech delivered in the foyer of the provincial legislature, the prince said the land that became Canada has been cared for by Indigenous people — First Nations, Métis and Inuit — for thousands of years. "We must find new ways to come to terms with the...
As well, he moved to deny or make more difficult the voting process for First Nations members, young people and the poor, by no longer accepting polling notification cards as ID, eliminating vouching for others and banning advertisements encouraging people to vote as well as Elections Canada ...
My children and I are first Nations. I had to spend the next 30 minutes explaining to my children that ignorance and injustice is still in the hearts of some people. This bigot staffed by the Canadian tire corporation tore down in seconds an idea of pleasant human nature that my family an...
In trying to curb impunityGOSLtogetherwiththeUnited Nations created a hybrid Court, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, to address primary crimes [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 在努力遏制有罪不罚方面,塞拉利昂政府与联合国合作,设立了一个混合 法院,即...