The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is an international instrument. On September 13th, 2007 the rights of Indigenous people have been governed by legal instruments, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The UNDRIP is an international human rights Document adopted by the UN General Assembly ensuing over two years of negotiations. It sets the minimum standard for treatment of Indigenous people and states that the rights contained within it “constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous people of the world.” The UNDRIP, document has 24 paragraphs and 46 articles. 50,000 – 17,000 years ago the European, non-Aboriginal arrived in Canada which changed everything, they have made their own law and created new society, in between the 1870s and the 1990s, they created residential schools, Same as Australian…show more content… Canada and Australia had very common history, both countries were colonized by the European. Residential schools were seen by society as a way to modernize the native population, so, they could teach and prepare them for the society they want to create and the way they see their society. Austrian government had same intention. Both governments may have different perspectives but, both wanted the same thing. Residential schools and the stolen generation would not have happened if the UNDRIP would have created in 1910. If the UNDRIP existed before 1910, Indigenous people in Canada and Australia would not have faced the same assimilation, policies and colonization as they have now.
Australia and Canada both has an awful and painful history of Indigenous people being discriminated by the Europeans. As written in the UNDRIP, article 14, Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner
