UBCIC Calls On New Zealand And Canada To Stop Denying International Legal Reality http://bit.ly/cjsCLL

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs stated “By deliberately interpreting the UN Declaration in accordance with the constitution and laws of each state, the Canadian and New Zealand governments are attempting to legitimize the ‘status quo’ by further entrenching the existing injustices and discrimination of their domestic policies within what is considered by the vast majority of Indigenous groups as one of the most important international human rights instruments of the United Nations.”