Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Canada: Preventing and Combating Racial Profiling
The report details First Nations’ experiences of racial profiling and racialized policing as a crucial lens to understand discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and provides suggestions to prevent and counter racial profiling.
Canada: Equality and Non-Discrimination with a Focus on Indigenous Women and Girls and Intersecting Forms of Discrimination
This report details the Union of BC Indian Chiefs submission to the the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women with an emphasis on how Indigenous women and girls living on Turtle Island experience destructive and intersecting forms of gender and racial discrimination that have been fostered, strengthened, and protected by colonial structures, institutions, and legal orders.
Canada: Climate Change and the Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This is a joint submission by Indigenous Climate Action and Union of BC Indian Chiefs to Karima Bennoune, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, on various resource development projects within Indigenous territories which is forcing more land dispossession and threatening Indigenous cultural heritage.
Impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples
This is a submission by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs to Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, about the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous peoples in B.C.