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Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying

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Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying
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Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted a landmark declaration on Indigenous rights, advocates say countries still aren’t living up to their promises to uphold and respect those rights.



Indigenous people are being killed for protecting their territories, criminalized for practicing their culture, and seeing their lands stripped of resources without consent. Last week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous

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