September 13, 2007
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Four counties voted against it: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The declaration was based on a concern that “indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests.”
