2012.12.21 - Canada rejects UN human rights criticism detailed in Amnesty International report

Source: http://nationtalk.ca/story/canada-rejects-un-human-rights-criticism-detailed-in-amnesty-international-report-national-post/ “By every measure, be it respect for treaty and land rights, levels of poverty, average life spans, violence against women and girls, dramatically disproportionate levels of arrest and incarceration or access to government services such as housing, health care, education, water and child protection, Indigenous peoples across Canada continue to face a grave human rights crisis,” the report says.