Braiding legal orders : implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, and Risa Schwartz, editors.

Braiding legal orders : implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, and Risa Schwartz, editors.

Publication Date
2019

Publication Information
Waterloo, Ont. : Centre for International Governance Innovation,

Physical Description
xvi, 236 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Canada.
 
Indigenous peoples (International law)
 
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
 
Indians of North America.

Additional Contributors
Borrows, John, 1963-
 
Chartrand, Larry N.
 
Fitzgerald, Oonagh E., 1955-
 
Schwartz, Risa, 1971-

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary
Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws and Canada's constitutional narratives. Two significant statements by the current Liberal government (the May 2016 address by Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations and the September 2017 address to the United Nations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) have endorsed UNDRIP and committed Canada to implementing it as 'a way forward' on the path to genuine nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous peoples. In response, these essays engage with the legal, historical, political and practical aspects of UNDRIP implementation. Written by Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders, and guided by the metaphor of braiding international, domestic and Indigenous laws into a strong, unified whole composed of distinct parts, the book makes visible the possibilities for reconciliation from different angles and under different lenses.

Language
English

ISBN
9781928096801


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
Corner BrookAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous342.710872 B73
Grand Falls-Windsor - HarmsworthAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous342.710872 B73
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - MelvilleAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous342.710872 B73
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous342.710872 B73