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May 10, 2016

Canada to Support U.N. Declaration on Indigenous Rights
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Canada has announced it will back a United Nations declaration to
protect the rights of the world's more than 370 million indigenous
peoples. Four countries opposed the declaration when it was first
adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2007: Australia, New Zealand,
Canada and the United States. Canada is the last of the four to finally
embrace the statement; the United States signed on in 2010.


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