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Another Triumph for the UN
Actually the struggle to get the world's governments to recognise the human rights of indigenous peoples began long before the United Nations dedicated the decade 1995-2004 to their concerns. But finalising a human rights document was the main aim of those 10 years, which U.N officials labelled a "partnership" between states and the world's roughly 350 million human beings known as tribal, native, aboriginal and indigenous peoples. That decade ends next week -- with just two of 45 articles of the U.N. 'Draft Declaration on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples' finalised...Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-12-26 |
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