British Columbia: UBCIC Commemorates UN International Day of Indigenous Peoples

British Columbia: UBCIC Commemorates UN International Day of Indigenous Peoples   In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly declared that the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples shall be observed on 9 August every year. The date marks the day of the first meeting, in 1982, of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.   “Increasingly, more and more First Nations are strategically supporting each other...

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