Author: Michael Murphy

22 Apr N.W.T. First Nations to get multi-year funding agreements (CBC News)

Posted at 08:35h in News, Posts

Some aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories will be moving to multi-year funding agreements with the federal government starting next year. The move towards longer-term arrangements is part of a major change the federal government is making to its decades-old funding policy. As recently as...

22 Apr Declaration secures Maori Party ‘treasured place in history’ (The New Zealand Herald)

Posted at 08:32h in News, Posts

New Zealand's first Maori High Court judge, Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie, has suggested the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will find their way in time into New Zealand law, both statute law and judge-made law. Sir Edward, now retired, sent...

19 Apr New Zealand to back UN text on indigenous rights (The Vancouver Sun)

Posted at 08:36h in News, Posts

In a reversal of its position, New Zealand announced on Monday that it now backed a UN declaration on indigenous people's rights, leaving the United States and Canada the only countries on record as opposing it. But in a statement to a UN forum on...