{"id":26600,"date":"2019-10-24T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=26600"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:26:55","slug":"greenpeace-canada-welcomes-introduction-of-new-undrip-legislation-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/26600\/greenpeace-canada-welcomes-introduction-of-new-undrip-legislation-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Canada welcomes introduction of new UNDRIP legislation in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>October 24, 2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26601\" style=\"width: 1098px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26601\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn.jpeg\" alt=\"Coast Protectors, Chief Stewart Phillip\" width=\"1088\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn.jpeg 1088w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn-300x190.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn-768x486.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn-1024x648.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/10\/a8fc7811-ehqlgwcuwaarrjn-510x323.jpeg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1088px) 100vw, 1088px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coast Protectors, Chief Stewart Phillip<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In reaction to the B.C. government officially tabling the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as provincial legislation, Mike Hudema, Climate &amp; Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Canada said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step forward. We commend the leadership of the many Indigenous Nations in British Columbia that have made this moment and this monumental piece of legislation possible. Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is an integral step in reconciliation, and Greenpeace supports the B.C. government in its full adoption \u2014 including free, prior and informed consent \u2014 and encourage the federal government and other jurisdictions to move quickly to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">END<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Firempong, Communication officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jesse.firempong@greenpeace.org\">jesse.firempong@greenpeace.org<\/a>; +1 778 996-6549<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 2019 In reaction to the B.C. government officially tabling the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as provincial legislation, Mike Hudema, Climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-26600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-indigenous","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26606,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions\/26606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}