Episode 4: On Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights with Brenda Gunn
On the last episode of Just Research, CHRR director Dr. Adele Perry speaks to Brenda Gunn, a professor in Robson Hall - Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, about her research on Indigenous peoples and human rights. Professor Gunn’s work has encompassed a wide variety of topics in this area, including Indigenous and treaty rights in Manitoba, and international law and Indigenous rights.
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Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
Guests
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Brenda Gunn
Prof. Brenda Gunn advocates for greater recognition of Indigenous peoples’ inherent rights as determined by their own legal traditions. She has worked in Guatemala on a case of genocide submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and with Manitoba First Nations on Aboriginal and treaty rights issues. She developed a handbook that is one of the main resources in Canada on understanding the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has provided technical assistance to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.