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UN rights body adopts indigenous rights declaration despite Canada’s No vote

Posted by tracy on June 30th, 2006

By a vote of 30-2, the UN Human Rights Council approved a declaration that said indigenous people should be free from discrimination and that they have a right “to consider themselves different and to be respected as such.” Only Canada and Russia voted against it.

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