Hul’qumi’num human rights claim takes another step
The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group has been granted a merits hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
It is the first Canadian group to get this far in the IACHR process.
HTG took its concerns about the Canadian government — citing the uncompensated seizure of ancestral territory for the benefit of private forestry and development corporations on the island — to the IACHR in 2009.
The IACHR is an arm of the Organization of American States, which Canada has been a member of since 1989.
The HTG, meanwhile, had previously been granted a hearing on the issue of admissibility, and now moves on to the merits hearing on Oct. 28 in Washington, D.C.
The commission will make a final ruling based on merits.
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