UN Human Rights Ruling: Sex-Based Discrimination in the Indian Act
UN Human Rights Ruling: Canada Has 180 Days to End Ongoing Sex-Based Discrimination in the Indian Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OTTAWA, JANUARY 17, 2019—The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that ongoing sex-based hierarchies in the Indian Act violate Canada’s international human rights obligations and discriminate against an estimated 270,000 women and their descendants.
Government efforts to address discrimination in the Indian Act, dating back to the 1980s and most recently, in 2017’s Bill S…