KAIROS works with Aboriginal, Metis, Inuit, global Indigenous and non-Aboriginal groups to make periodic submissions to the federal government and to reviews of Canada's efforts (or lack thereof) to comply with human rights agreements which it has signed. In the case of the United Nations' Declaration on Indigenous Rights, Canada has refused to sign and has been an active part of efforts to block the Declaration (see our global Indigenous rights page).

All documents here can be downloaded and distributed freely.

Policy Briefing Paper #18: Indigenous Peoples and Oil and Gas Development: Respecting Rights, Minimizing Risks, Maximizing Benefits (October 2009, PDF)

UN Special Rapporteur's report on adequate housing, October 2007 (PDF)

Canada’s Aboriginal Policy: Discriminatory and Disingenuous. A KAIROS Brief to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Occasion of the Examination of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Periodic Reports Submitted by Canada. (February 2007, PDF format)

Policy paper #5: Measuring the Federal Government’s Commitment to Aboriginal Rights (December 2006, PDF)

Negotiation or Confrontation: It’s Canada’s Choice: Final Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples Special Study on the Federal Specific Claims Process (PDF format)

Report on the presentation of a joint brief by the Ad Hoc Coalition on the Rights of Aboriginal Children in Canada to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. (September 2003)

Full text: Joint brief by the Ad Hoc Coalition on the Rights of Aboriginal Children in Canada to the United Nations (September 2003, PDF format)

KAIROS Brief to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Occasion of the Examination of the 13th & 14th Periodic Reports Submitted by Canada (August 2002)

Let Justice Flow: archived report of the Inter-Church Inquiry on northern hydro development, Manitoba: 1999 (PDF format)