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Article: Native peoples hold own Rio summits
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1992
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- About 10 minutes from the site of next week's
Earth Summit, indigenous groups from around the world have gathered
in a temporary village to stake their claim as the true voices of the
earth.
But the ambitious attempt to unify thousands of disparate groups has
been hampered by a split over how indigenous peoples's rights can
best be preserved and defended.
Organizers have tried to downplay the rift, but it has resulted in
two separate indigenous conferences being held in connection with the
UN Conference on Environment and Development, which runs from June 3
to 14.
"We have a number of differences of opinion on a number of things
which are not important anymore today," ...