Canada - Indigenous protest movement highlights deep-rooted injustices

DIRITTI UMANI

For nearly a month now, an Indigenous leader has been camped out in a traditional tepee near the Canadian Parliament buildings in Ottawa,

where she is engaged in a hunger strike aimed at getting a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation started her fast on 11 December 2012 to draw attention to an endemic housing crisis in her community and new legislation that undermines the rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples across Canada.
At the same time, a growing grassroots movement – “Idle No More” – has successfully used social media to organize demonstrations for Indigenous rights in communities across Canada, prompting solidarity actions around the world.
Like Chief Spence’s hunger strike, the Idle No More protests are a response both to the government’s current legislative agenda and to the longstanding discrimination and injustices faced by Indigenous peoples in Canada, including the failure to uphold negotiated treaties. (...)

The article:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/canada-indigenous-protest-movement-highlights-deep-rooted-injustices-2013-01-04

More about:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12917&LangID=E

Sull'argomento:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=%2019700

http://www.salvaleforeste.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3435&Itemid=999

Passato...prossimo:
https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4308:canada-onu-denuncia-violazioni-diritti-degli-indigeni-attawapiskat&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-rattles-mental-health-of-inuit-in-labrador-1.2492180

Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit