Canada: Assembly Of First Nations Welcomes Canada´s Support Of UN Declaration

Canada: Assembly Of First Nations Welcomes Canada´s Support Of UN Declaration Canada´s move to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was welcomed as a positive development by the Assembly of First Nations. The endoresement was announced at UN headquarters in New York on Friday, three years after Canada being just one of four states to vote against the declaration. "It´s something that we welcome," said Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First...

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