UN : Industrial Agriculture Endangering Indigenous Right to Land | News | teleSUR
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The soy-exporting model is particularly threatening indigenous peoples’ cultures and survival, said the UN special rapporteur.
Over 40 percent of indigenous communities of Paraguay have no access to land, while those who do suffer from the invasions by ranchers and soy-producers, said a United Nations official Friday.
Victoria Tauli Corpuz, the U.N. special rapporteur for the rights of indigenous peoples, spent a one week visit in the South American country.
“Almost half of the indigenous communities informed me that they lacked land and even when they have property titles, the security of owning land is not guaranteed,” said Tauli Corpuz to journalists in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital.
She mentioned the case of the only original people from Paraguay, called Ayoreo Totobiegosode, which includes uncontacted members. Their representatives repeatedly denounced the illegal wood cutting taking place on their ancestral lands.
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