A United Nations expert panel on human rights has blasted Canada for its treatment of the country’s Indigenous Peoples. During hearings in Geneva on February 22, the U.N...
More than a dozen representatives from First Nations and social justice organizations will air their grievances about racial discrimination in Canada in front of a high level body ...
In this June 7, 2010 photo, U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, is pictured in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, David McDaniel) Rep...
Katie Hyslop, TheTyee.ca
December 29, 2011
We all pay when Aboriginal kids aren't given their best chance to learn. Second in a series...
As homes started wending their way toward Attawapiskat, some from as far away as New Brunswick, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took Canad...
Rob Capriccioso
November 25, 2011
WASHINGTON – Good or bad, American Indians have long been associated with Thanksgiving...
November 12 marked the one-year anniversary of Canada's signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and aboriginal and Canadian leaders ...
Julia Good Fox

Tellingly, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave his speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday, he made no mention of the this year's u...

September 23, 2011
There was a whole lotta booty-shakin' goin' on at the Montreal First People's Festival in early August during a parade celebrating the first year of Canada's adoption of the United...
Duane Champagne
August 14, 2011
A primary goal of the human rights movement is to ensure equality for all persons and citizens of nation states...

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