Three UN expert committees gave Canada?s performance on meeting humans rights commitments in 2012 a failing grade.??It?s a wake-up call that although we have things to be proud of, there are many fronts where we have long-standing issues that need to be addressed,??said Alex Neve, head of Amnesty International Canada.
An Amnesty report released Wednesday says that committees on racial discrimination, prevention of torture and children?s rights found ?a range? of ?ongoing and serious human rights challenges,? especially for indigenous peoples.
?By every measure, be it respect for treaty and land rights, levels of poverty, average life spans, violence against women and girls, dramatically disproportionate levels of arrest and incarceration or access to government services such as housing, health care, education, water and child protection, indigenous peoples across Canada continue to face a grave human rights crisis,? it read.
Amnesty?s report calls for a new human rights agenda for Canada that includes all levels of government, beginning with ?a process of law reform . . . to establish a formal mechanism for transparent, effective and accountable implementation of Canada?s international human rights obligations.?
It says that UN recommendations have too often been ignored, and the implementation process is so ?cloaked in secrecy? that most Canadians have no idea whether the government plans to act on them. [Toronto Star]?
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