Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Rules Canada Failing to Prosecute Genocide of Indigenous People, Uphold International Law
The panel cited residential schools, forced sterilizations and other abuses, saying Canada has not acted on Truth and Reconciliation Commission obligations.
- On Wednesday, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal issued its final report concluding Canada's residential school system posed "widespread, systematic and most serious human rights violations" amounting to crimes against humanity and genocide.
- Evidence reviewed during May hearings showed 15,000 Indigenous children faced forced labour, malnutrition, sexual abuse, and severe deprivation in residential schools, prompting the tribunal to classify these acts as genocide.
- Although the House and Commons recognized the system as genocide in 2019 and 2022, the tribunal's report states these acknowledgments are "mostly deprived of practical effect by the extremely limited criminalization of genocide in Canadian domestic legislation."
- The tribunal demanded Canada conduct thorough investigations into missing children, conserve residential school archives, and provide reparations; it also called on the Catholic Church to return sacred objects and restitute stolen lands.
- Condemning Canada for showing "deliberate & contempt," the tribunal highlighted ongoing discrimination including forced sterilization of Indigenous women and criminalization of land defenders by government agencies.
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Human rights panel condemns Canada's inaction regarding Indigenous people
Canada is failing to meet international legal obligations by refusing to hold thorough investigations into the crimes committed in its residential school system, says a global human rights organization.
The judges of the Permanent People's Court delivered their final verdict on the issue of missing indigenous children and anonymous burials.
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WellandTribune.caHuman rights panel condemns Canada’s inaction regarding Indigenous people
MONTRÉAL - Canada is failing to meet international legal obligations by refusing to hold thorough investigations into the crimes committed in its residential school system, says a global human rights
Canada "fails to meet its international legal obligations" by refusing to investigate thoroughly the crimes against Aboriginal children who have been subjected to the Aboriginal Residential Schools (IRS) system and to punish the perpetrators of these crimes.
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