Indigenous Rights, Equity and the State

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course offers a critical examination of State and Indigenous approaches to issues of human rights. It explores the concept of Rights through the Canadian constitutional sources, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Human Rights Act, provincial codes, judicial rulings and United Nations conventions and declarations. It considers how the practice of these rights impacts, supports and/or limits Indigenous rights while describing alternative conceptions of rights and responsibilities from Indigenous perspectives.