sentences:  In May 2016, Canada officially removed its objector status to UNDRIP, almost a decade after it was adopted by the General Assembly.By 2016, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America, who had also voted against the Declaration, had reversed their positions and expressed support.Due to the past and ongoing violence and abuse of Indigenous individuals and peoples, the UN created this non-legally binding declaration as an aspiration for how Indigenous individuals and peoples should be treated.