Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been in the works for two decades. It calls for world-wide measures to address the widespread hardship, poverty, and human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples around the world.

• Sign the online petition
• Write to Harper urging the Government of Canada to stop opposing the UN Declaration.

The Declaration was adopted by the newly formed UN Human Rights Council in June 2006. But the Declaration has not yet been adopted by the UN General Assembly. Canada supported the Declaration in the past, but is now among a handful of states pressing for further negotiations … despite the fact that 20 years of negotiations have already taken place.

Such negotiations will only delay – and quite possibly weaken – a human rights instrument critical to the survival and well-being of some of the world’s most impoverished, marginalized and frequently victimized peoples.

PSAC has joined the list of over 22,000 organizations and individuals who are pushing for the immediate adoption of the UN Declaration.