UN’s Indigenous Rights Declaration Means Apartheid

UNDRIP is a death sentence for Canada's indigenous marginalized

Justice Minister David Lametti makes an announcement about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Ottawa on Dec. 3, 2020. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Commentary

For a burgeoning underclass of marginalized indigenous youth, legislation to implement the U.N.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a death sentence. They live in squalor in remote settlements and urban slums. Here’s a statement from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples’ 1995 report on suicide, “Choosing Life”: