Inuit Tapiriit kanatami said it was the 15th Anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or UNDRI yesterday.
Watch ITk’s Tim Argetsinger speak about the challenges and progress made in implementing the declaration in ways that relate to Inuit in Canada.
He states:
“I think it is quite remarkable that, to my knowledge, Canada is the first nation state to pass national legislation seeking to implement the Declaration.
That’s both, a really exciting opportunity, but in many ways it’s also a challenge because it means that we do not necessarily have a clear path or other models to follow.
We are figuring on how to do this in the best possible way. So the work is developing the action-plan the question about how the action plan intersects with Section , which is the decision that creates an obligation for the government to take all measures necessary to align the lines that we recognize by the declaration with Canadian Laws = we’re developing solutions of how to ensure that the articles are implemented in a way that have positive impacts in the day to day lives of Inuit and Indigenous people’s”.
Tim Argetsinger is the Special Advisor to ITk’s President, Natan Obed.