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The '''Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples''' ('''A/RES/61/295''') is a [[United Nations]] resolution passed in 2007. The only countries that voted against it were the [[Settler-colonialism|settler-colonial]] states of [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]], and the [[United States of America|United States]].<ref>{{News citation|title=General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925040218/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10612.doc.htm|archive-date=2014-09-25}}</ref> The declaration states that [[Indigenous people|indigenous peoples]] have rights to their land and that treaties should be honored.<ref>{{Citation|author=United Nations General Assembly|year=2007|title=United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|pdf=https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/512/07/PDF/N0651207.pdf?OpenElement|publisher=United Nations}}</ref>
The '''Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples''' ('''A/RES/61/295''') is a [[United Nations]] resolution passed in 2007. The only countries that voted against it were the [[Settler-colonialism|settler-colonial]] states of [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]], and the [[United States of America|United States]].<ref>{{News citation|title=General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925040218/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10612.doc.htm|archive-date=2014-09-25}}</ref> The declaration states that [[indigenous peoples]] have rights to their land and that treaties should be honored.<ref>{{Citation|author=United Nations General Assembly|year=2007|title=United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|pdf=https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/512/07/PDF/N0651207.pdf?OpenElement|publisher=United Nations}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
[[Category:UN resolutions]]
[[Category:UN resolutions]]

Latest revision as of 21:59, 20 March 2022

Green: Support, Blue: Abstained, Red: Opposed

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295) is a United Nations resolution passed in 2007. The only countries that voted against it were the settler-colonial states of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.[1] The declaration states that indigenous peoples have rights to their land and that treaties should be honored.[2]

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  1. General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples. United Nations. Archived from the original on 2014-09-25.
  2. United Nations General Assembly (2007). United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [PDF] United Nations.