UNDRIP "provides a framework for justice and reconciliation, applying existing human rights standards to the specific historical, cultural and social circumstances of Indigenous peoples."
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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“UN Declaration” or “UNDRIP”) passed on September 13, 2007, by an overwhelming majority of the United Nations General Assembly. One hundred and forty-four member States voted in favor of the UNDRIP, only eleven abstained, and only four (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States) voted against it.
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At its core, is the UN Declaration’s recognition of indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination to “freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” As explained by former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, the right of self-determination is "to be full and equal participants in the creation of the institutions of government under which they live and, further, to live within a governing institutional order in which they are perpetually in control of their own destinies."
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A copy of this report can be downloaded and read at this website
https://www.kairoscanada.org/what-we...-rights/undrip