UNDRIP Action Plan sees response from Feathers of Hope gathering – Anishinabek News

February 6, 2025

THUNDER BAY – A group of Indigenous youth recently provided responses to the federal government’s UNDRIP Action Plan during the Feathers of Hope UNDRIP Action Plan Youth Gathering on Jan. 24 at the Valhalla Hotel and Conference Centre in Thunder Bay. The federal government’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) Act Action Plan 2023-2028 provides a roadmap of actions that Canada needs to take in partnership with Indigenous peoples to implement the principles and rights set out in UNDRIP and to further advance reconciliation in a tangible way.

“We’re asking young people to focus on certain categories of the [UNDRIP Action Plan] articles and to provide us with feedback based on their lived experience and how they think it affects them or doesn’t affect them and what recommendations they would have to make it better,” says Betty Kennedy, CEO at Feathers of Hope and a Red Rock Indian Band citizen. “We’ll be providing this back to Justice Canada, who funded this gathering, and in addition utilizing it for our own purposes in terms of advocacy as it relates to young peoples and their voices. It’s imperative that happens because a lot of times their voice isn’t even considered in any discussions that go on about any particular issue affecting Indigenous peoples, never mind children.”

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