Comments on: Canada follows a UN lead on indigenous rights https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/05/canada-follows-a-un-lead-on-indigenous-rights/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 08 May 2018 13:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Rohan https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/05/canada-follows-a-un-lead-on-indigenous-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-348732 Tue, 08 May 2018 13:05:08 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=70455#comment-348732 Interesting – here’s a part of that UN Declaration:

Article 5

Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.

Article 34

Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.

Wouldn’t “indigenous peoples” apply to Europeans in their home countries? They could use this to keep their communities separate from migrants. There are a lot of ways to twist things when you are granting rights to one group, that another group doesn’t have. In fact, rather than advancing human rights, that’s the very definition of “discrimination”.

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