US EditionTŝilhqot’in Youth Speak at UN Session on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, JUL 23 – Two youth ambassadors from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government spoke on Indigenous rights and performed at the UN session, part of a program empowering youth leadership.
- Two T]ilhqot’in youth ambassadors, Sierra William and Dakota Diablo, represented their nation at the UN’s 18th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Sierra William graduated with a Human Rights Diploma and aspires to a law degree while participating in the T]ilhqot’in National Government’s International Youth Ambassador Program, which aims to empower Indigenous youth to understand and apply human rights.
- At the UN session, William spoke on behalf of Nits’il’ín Francis Laceese about Indigenous rights and the shortfalls of Canada’s Human Rights Commission.
- Both William and Diablo performed an opening song at a side event, with William expressing, 'It gives us a rundown of what’s happening in the United Nations and how to make connections with people.
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