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Mongabay: Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies
As large-scale mining, logging, and plantations threaten indigenous communities worldwide, a new report from the indigenous rights NGO Amazon Watch states that when extractive industries work in indigenous people's territories, the peoples' rights must be respected. The report argues that all indigenous groups have the right to 'free, prior, and informed consent' of any resource extraction occurring on their lands, and that this international......
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indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 4th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation