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6-POINT FEDERAL PLANS INCLUDES A PUSH TO DEVOLVE CHILD WELFARE TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Critics also say provincial rules and regulations on child welfare prohibit Indigenous communities from designing their own systems of kinship care and family reunification... READ MORE›
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AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
CANADA DISCRIMINATES AGAINST CHILDREN ON RESERVES, TRIBUNAL RULES
In a news release, the Canadian Human Rights Commission also applauded the tribunal's ruling... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
LEGAL WARRIORS: PROFILES OF 5 INDIGENOUS LAWYERS
A founding member of the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada, Donald Worme is a Cree lawyer based in Saskatoon... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FINAL REPORT POINTS TO 'GROWING CRISIS' FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTH
Truth and Reconciliation final report points to 'growing crisis' for indigenous youth... READ MORE›
CANADA CHILDREN'S BOOK RECALLED AMID ACCUSATIONS OF WHITEWASHING HISTORY
Workbook recasts dispossession of First Nations peoples as voluntary but sparks outrage on social media for ignoring 'suffering and injustice'... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
MANITOBA FIRST NATIONS LEADERS SPLIT ON SYRIAN REFUGEES COMING INTO CANADA
David Pashe says it's frustrating to see the government prioritize refugees over First Nations people, who he says need work and housing too... READ MORE›
HOW DO YOU START A COUNTRY
The question put before it was, was Kosovo's declaration of independence in contravention of general international law?... READ MORE›
UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
MEXICAN CABINET OFFICIAL OUT AFTER TRUMP VISIT
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announce Wednesday that his finance minister, Luis Videgaray, is out of his cabinet, a Mexican federal government official confirmed to CNNE... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
FIRST NATIONS CHILD WELFARE RULING A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER ON-RESERVE ISSUES, LAWYERS SAY
Every single element of government services that Canadians take for granted, First Nations people do not... READ MORE›
INDIGENOUS LEADERS CRITICAL OF GOVERNMENT HOUSING SUPPORT AFTER DEADLY FIRE
Day said underfunding for First Nations is an issue that needs to be addressed... READ MORE›
FIRST NATIONS LEADER URGES CANADA TO PROSECUTE 'OUT OF HAND' HATE SPEECH
It's getting out of hand, said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in the province of Saskatchewan... READ MORE›
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT
We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN ENEMIES FIND UNEASY REFUGE TOGETHER AT A UN BASE
Any trip to and from the base requires an armed escort of more than a dozen United Nations peacekeepers... READ MORE›
MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde says Prime Minister Trudeau's appointment of two indigenous MPs to cabinet is part of a new era of reconciliation... READ MORE›