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Chilean Mapuche social activist and educator Nilsa Rain recently spent a month touring Canada, exchanging ideas and comparing living realities with Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

And like to many Indigenous Canadians, Chilean Mapuche Indians are fighting for a land base to sustain them.

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Chilean Mapuche social activist and educator Nilsa Rain recently spent a month touring Canada, exchanging ideas and comparing living realities with Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

And like to many Indigenous Canadians, Chilean Mapuche Indians are fighting for a land base to sustain them.

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Chilean Mapuche social activist and educator Nilsa Rain recently spent a month touring Canada, exchanging ideas and comparing living realities with Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

And like to many Indigenous Canadians, Chilean Mapuche Indians are fighting for a land base to sustain them.

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Chilean Mapuche social activist and educator Nilsa Rain recently spent a month touring Canada, exchanging ideas and comparing living realities with Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

And like to many Indigenous Canadians, Chilean Mapuche Indians are fighting for a land base to sustain them.

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North American Natives need the international protection afforded by the United Nations if they are to survive, a Canadian Native leader told the UN during the World Conference on Human Rights.

The history of human rights abuse by governments in North America requires that the UN move immediately to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, said Ted Moses, head of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec.

"We appeal for the application of international human rights standards because we wish to survive as peoples."

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North American Natives need the international protection afforded by the United Nations if they are to survive, a Canadian Native leader told the UN during the World Conference on Human Rights.

The history of human rights abuse by governments in North America requires that the UN move immediately to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, said Ted Moses, head of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec.

"We appeal for the application of international human rights standards because we wish to survive as peoples."

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North American Natives need the international protection afforded by the United Nations if they are to survive, a Canadian Native leader told the UN during the World Conference on Human Rights.

The history of human rights abuse by governments in North America requires that the UN move immediately to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, said Ted Moses, head of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec.

"We appeal for the application of international human rights standards because we wish to survive as peoples."

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North American Natives need the international protection afforded by the United Nations if they are to survive, a Canadian Native leader told the UN during the World Conference on Human Rights.

The history of human rights abuse by governments in North America requires that the UN move immediately to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, said Ted Moses, head of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec.

"We appeal for the application of international human rights standards because we wish to survive as peoples."

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Natives endure the same human rights violations world-wide, the United Nations World Conference of Human Rights Non-Government Organization Forum was told.

The NGO forum's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples heard two days of speeches from dozens of Native peoples from round the world June 10 and 11.

The all-day meetings were designed to give Indigenous peoples the chance to voice their concerns and to construct a draft document for the UN's World Conference the following week.

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Natives endure the same human rights violations world-wide, the United Nations World Conference of Human Rights Non-Government Organization Forum was told.

The NGO forum's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples heard two days of speeches from dozens of Native peoples from round the world June 10 and 11.

The all-day meetings were designed to give Indigenous peoples the chance to voice their concerns and to construct a draft document for the UN's World Conference the following week.