[news] UN Human Rights Committee condemns Canadian government inaction on Lubicon land claim

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UN Human Rights Committee condemns Canadian government inaction on Lubicon land claim  
[http://briarpatchmagazine.com/news/?p=47][1]

By Richard Milligan  
Briarpatch Magazine  
December 2005

ON OCTOBER 17, representatives of the Lubicon Cree delivered a formal complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva. The delegation sought the UN’s help to pressure the Canadian government on two demands: to return in good faith to land claim negotiations, and to cease its support for the systematic destruction of Lubicon land through illegal resource extraction for narrow corporate interests.

    [1]: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/news/?p=47

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