The United Nations has set August 9 as the International Day of Indigenous Peoples but to most IPs worldwide, it is just another day of facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples.
The United Nations has set August 9 as the International Day of Indigenous Peoples but to most IPs worldwide, it is just another day of facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples.
Not only are they confronted with dispossession of their lands and physical persecution, they are also faced with appropriation of natural resources and their collective knowledge of this, which they developed through the ages.
Their traditional knowledge of food crops, medicinal plants and survival are being taken by multinational companies and commercialized.
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