A human rights report addresses challenges that remain in Canada, including those involving Indigenous peoples.
Pak Sahafat News agency- An international observer in a new report challenges Canada on what it sees as serious domestic and foreign policy challenges to human rights.
According to the National Observer, the New York-based Human Rights Watch’s annual report says that while Justin Trudeau’s government spent the first six years of its rule trying to advance legal issues, it tackled anti-Native inequality, tackling climate change, and monitoring mining operations.
The report cites current Canadian action on indigenous peoples, but notes the challenges that remain, including the aftermath of the discovery last year of large graves of children forced to attend former boarding schools.
The report states that Indigenous abuses against indigenous peoples continue across Canada, and significant challenges to address structural and systemic discrimination remain for decades.
This organization says that inadequate access to clean drinking water remains a major threat to Indigenous health, which continues to impede the development of Indigenous rights in Canada, one of the most water-rich countries in the world.
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According to the report, Canada is one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases in the G7, and says that this country is the largest financier of fossil fuel producers in the world.
The author adds: Canada is fueling a climate crisis that is increasingly affecting human rights around the world; the failure of global governments to tackle climate change has already taken a heavy toll on Canada’s marginalized population; Temperatures are increasingly reducing the availability of traditional indigenous food sources and increasing the difficulty and risk of harvesting food from the ground.
Highlighting Canada’s shortcomings in meeting the challenges of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the report shows that whenever the Canadian government speaks out against human rights abuses in other countries, it provides new elements to critics.
“On the domestic front, there is still widespread abuse against Indigenous peoples and migrant detainees,” said Farideh Diff, director of Human Rights Watch Canada.
The report also criticizes the Canadian government for failing to take sufficient steps to enforce intellectual property laws that allow for a more equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in poorer countries.