The UN Declaration provides a principled framework for partnership and reconciliation between states and Indigenous Peoples. Its provisions provide much needed guidance to governments, state institutions and society as a whole on how human rights laws and obligations can be best understood and applied to the distinct circumstances and urgent needs of 370 million Indigenous People around the world.

There are calls for Canada's government to work in genuine partnership with Indigenous Peoples for unqualified endorsement and full implementation of the Declaration. Groups also highlight that an endorsement must honour the spirit and intent of the Declaration consistent with Indigenous Peoples' human rights.

This statement was signed by Assembly of First Nations; Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada; Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami; Native Women's Association of Canada; Assemblée des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador; Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs; Chiefs of Ontario; Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee); Innu Council of Nitassinan; Amnesty International; Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers); KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, among several others.