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10 Sep No indigenous policy (Latin American Press)

UN rapporteur denounces government’s failure to protect indigenous peoples.  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People James Anaya warned that Brazil´s government policies on the indigenous population “lack coherence”...

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09 Sep Stolen regeneration (The Australian)

LIGHTNING Ridge, near the NSW border with Queensland, is a unique Australian town. Over the years, thousands of drifters and fortune-hunters have gone there, staked a claim, set up a camp and started to dig, hoping to find black opals.  As such, the land around...

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