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International advocacy does not replace domestic campaigning or First Nations leadership. It strengthens these efforts by bringing additional attention to human rights concerns and increasing pressure on governments to act. One important avenue is the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process through which UN member states examine one another’s human rights records and make recommendations to improve human rights protections. Ahead of the UPR, Amnesty International Australia’s Indigenous Rights team engaged with embassies and diplomatic representatives of various governments in Australia, advocating for recommendations that reflected our campaign priorities and the human rights concerns raised by First Nations communities. Many countries subsequently put forward recommendations that aligned with the issues we had raised. This demonstrates the importance of sustained international engagement and the role that advocacy can play in ensuring First Nations human rights concerns are reflected in international scrutiny of Australia’s human rights record. Kacey Teerman, Strategic Campaigner for Indigenous Rights at Amnesty International Australia, said: “International advocacy is a critical part of how we hold the Australian Government accountable for its human rights obligations. Through the Universal Periodic Review, we engaged with embassies and saw many countries raise recommendations that reflected the concerns we had advocated...

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On October 30, leaders from Canada and the European Union gathered in Montreal and agreed to study exporting liquefied natural gas to Europe. That same day, the head of a US$23-billion project to ship Western Canadian gas from Quebec’s North Shore was on a ferry crossing the St. Lawrence River. “Europe needs gas. If it doesn’t come from the East Coast, it will come from the West,” Yves Crits, chief executive of Kino Aski LNG, told The Narwhal in what he said was his first media interview. West Coast liquefied natural gas, or LNG, bound for Europe will cross the congested Panama Canal, he noted, unless it can find a shorter route through Quebec. Summary Kino Aski is a proposed US$23-billion project to ship Western Canadian gas from Quebec’s North Shore, where floating facilities would liquefy up to 15 million tonnes of LNG a year. A presentation obtained by The Narwhal shows the company has already mapped three possible pipeline routes and presented them to the federal government. While the project is majority-controlled by Atikamekw Nation, not all nations along the proposed route support it. Crits was returning from Baie-Comeau, about 400 kilometres downriver from Quebec City, where he had...

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Ahead of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ official visit, Amnesty International Australia and Change the Record are calling on the Australian Government to answer international scrutiny with real commitments to improve its human rights performance in the treatment of First Nations people. UN Special Rapporteur Dr Albert K. Barume will visit Australia from 2–13 November, providing a critical opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to speak directly about the human rights violations facing their communities, and for the Australian Government to be held accountable for its international human rights obligations. This visit, the first in nine years, comes amid growing national and international scrutiny of Australia’s treatment of First Nations peoples, particularly the escalating criminalisation and incarceration of First Nations children, and the disproportionate violence experienced by First Nations women and girls. The organisations are urging the Albanese Government to commit to a timely, public and substantive response to the Special Rapporteur’s findings and recommendations when his report is released, including a clear plan for implementation developed in genuine partnership with First Nations communities. Uncle Rodney Dillon, respected Palawa Elder from Tasmania and the Indigenous Rights Advisor for Amnesty International Australia said: “This...

This November, Australia’s record on First Nations rights will be under the spotlight, as UN Special Rapporteur Dr Albert K. Barume visits the country to assess how the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are being upheld. What is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? A Special Rapporteur is an independent human rights expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to examine a human rights topic for 3 years. Their job is to examine human rights issues, hear directly from people whose rights are affected, and hold governments accountable to their international human rights obligations. Dr Albert K. Barume, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, looks at how well countries protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights, listens to communities and governments, and makes recommendations. From 2 to 13 November (subject to change), Dr Albert K. Barume will visit Australia and meet with First Nations peoples and organisations, as well as government and civil society, to hear about the issues affecting communities and assess Australia’s progress on Indigenous rights. Why the Special Rapporteur visit matters For First Nations communities, organisations and advocates, meeting the UN Special Rapporteur is a chance to share...

This November, Australia’s record on First Nations rights will be under the spotlight, as UN Special Rapporteur Dr Albert K. Barume visits the country to assess how the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are being upheld. What is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? A Special Rapporteur is an independent human rights expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to examine a human rights topic for 3 years. Their job is to examine human rights issues, hear directly from people whose rights are affected, and hold governments accountable to their international human rights obligations. Dr Albert K. Barume, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, looks at how well countries protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights, listens to communities and governments, and makes recommendations. From 2 to 13 November (subject to change), Dr Albert K. Barume will visit Australia and meet with First Nations peoples and organisations, as well as government and civil society, to hear about the issues affecting communities and assess Australia’s progress on Indigenous rights. Why the Special Rapporteur visit matters For First Nations communities, organisations and advocates, meeting the UN Special Rapporteur is a chance to share...

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Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty and Conservative MP Billy Morin clashed during Thursday morning’s Indigenous Affairs committee meeting over the government’s proposed First Nations water legislation. The meeting marked the first formal committee examination of the proposed legislation. Morin took issue with the federal government’s decision to drop explicit recognition of clean drinking water as a human right in Bill C-37, the government’s new proposed First Nations Clean Water Act. Instead, it frames the government’s obligations through best efforts and “progressive realization,” an internationally recognized human rights law dealing with economics and culture. “You did some level of engagement from C-61 to C-37. And you mentioned you talked to First Nations. And I asked earlier about rolling back the human right to water. Which First Nation told you or gave you the permission to roll back that definition of the human right? Was there a First Nation?” Morin asked. Gull-Masty didn’t answer the question. “It would really be a disservice to actually answer it in a way that you would think there would be somebody who would make that single action drive an outcome. So I’m not there to respond to such a silly question. I’m sorry. I do think...

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WIIKWEMKOONG UNCEDED TERRITORY, Ontario — For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have passed down their traditions and culture through oral storytelling. Now, a Canadian Indigenous community is using a data center to help preserve its heritage. The Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory in rural Ontario installed a small data center as it modernized its recordkeeping systems. Among the digital files it holds are video recordings of Anishinaabe speaking their native language. “Our language is one of the biggest things that most First Nations across the country are losing,” said Wiikwemkoong Chief Tim Ominika. “We will have our knowledge keepers, our language speakers who may be moving on to the spirit world, but their legacy is still going to be protected for many years to come by having our own data systems in place and protecting that.” The idea of digital sovereignty has gained momentum in places like Europe, where leaders are wary of the widespread influence of American Big Tech. For the Wiikwemkoong First Nation and other Indigenous communities, it is also about asserting authority over their own information after historically being excluded from its collection and use by colonizers. About the size of a single-car garage, the data center installed last...

If only. It’s a phrase that plays over and over again in Eva Mamakwa’s mind. If only her daughter, Miranda Mamakwa, had made it to at least one follow-up appointment after open-heart surgery, she may be alive. If only Indigenous Services Canada’s non-insured health benefits program had arranged travel for just one of her four missed appointments, Miranda may be alive. The 31-year-old mother of three from Fort Severn First Nation died on Sept. 8, weeks after asking people on social media to seek action in case of her death. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” Eva Mamakwa said in an interview with The Canadian Press from her home before falling quiet, overcome with emotion. She is speaking out about her daughter’s death for the first time. Since Miranda Mamakwa’s death, more than a dozen First Nations and tribal councils have filed a human rights complaint that alleges widespread neglect of their communities’ health needs, while chiefs have demanded reform from the federal agency in charge of arranging medical travel for remote First Nation people. Indigenous Services Canada said it’s working to improve delivery of the service, while the minister in charge has said she requested a...

When Senator Michèle Audette questioned the Canadian government over its latest plan to fast-track industrial projects, she started by speaking in Innu-Aimun. For the senator, an Indigenous women’s rights advocate who was a commissioner in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, speaking the language was a way to centre her Innu community’s past, as Canada tries to shape its future. “It was to remind, in that important space, that there was a moment when the government had tried to erase us through legislation and policies,” Sen. Audette, who comes from the First Nation of Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam in eastern Quebec, told The Narwhal in an interview. The people she was reminding were a trio of federal ministers who had appeared at a special Senate hearing on Oct. 6 to answer questions about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act. Summary Bill C-39 is the latest piece of legislation under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government aimed at fast-tracking major infrastructure projects, such as pipelines. Senator Michèle Audette, who comes from a First Nation in eastern Quebec, told The Narwhal she is concerned the bill overlooks the rights of Indigenous Peoples...

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Michael Joel-Hansen Saskatoon StarPhoenix As Indigenous Services Canada attempts to recoup over $12 million in what it calls "ineligible" expenses, the provincial organization representing 74 Saskatchewan First Nations remains steadfast that federal funding was spent appropriately. In a letter from ISC dated Wednesday, the ministry said it is seeking "immediate" repayment by Nov. 13 of

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