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 impleme...

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The Indigenous Human Rights podcast is produced by Pro Bono Students Canada's Indigenous Human Rights Program. We're a group of law students shining a light on the experiences of Indigenous people at human rights tribunals across Canada. Listen and learn what it's really like to fight for your rights in the colonial legal system. Our podcast is sponsored by Thomson Reuters, PBSC's National Research Partner.