Amnesty International's human rights' priority issues for new Canadian Prime Minister

Friends of the Lubicon PO Box 444 Stn D, Etobicoke ON M9A 4X4 Tel: (416) 763-7500 Email: fol (at) tao (dot) ca www.lubicon.ca

February 23, 2006

Amnesty International today released an open letter to new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper outlining the human rights priorities they want the new government to address.

Amongst those priorities is a Lubicon settlement.

Specifically, Amnesty International calls on Canada to "[give] immediate priority to Canada's compliance with outstanding recommendations of United Nations treaty bodies in respect to the human rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This should include providing federal negotiators with a clear mandate to reach a just settlement of the land rights dispute with the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta, as has been repeatedly urged by the UN Human Rights Committee."

The full letter is available here.

Information on how Amnesty International supporters can join the National Lubicon Petition Campaign is available here.

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