Sheryl Lightfoot: UNDRIP and Human Rights Tribunals

An episode from the back catalogue! We talk to Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe (enrolled at the Keweenaw Bay Community), a professor at the University of British Columbia, and one of the world’s leading experts in global Indigenous politics, serving as the North American member on the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Lightfoot discusses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its implementation in Canada. Dr. Lightfoot explains what UNDRIP is, how Canada is implementing this international instrument, and how UNDRIP interacts with the human rights tribunal system in Canada. 

Discussed: UNDRIP Implementation, International Indigenous law, human rights, tribunals

Music: Ross Bugden, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.