Indigenous peoples face growing crisis as climate change, unchecked economic growth, unfavourable domestic laws force them from lands, forum told

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Title: Indigenous peoples face growing crisis as climate change, unchecked economic growth, unfavourable domestic laws force them from lands, forum told
Source: M2PressWIRE. 05/01/2008.
Abstract: Indigenous peoples were facing a growing crisis as climate change, unchecked economic growth and discriminatory national laws forced them from their lands into urban areas that offered them insufficient social services, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues heard today during a full-day debate devoted to, among other themes, urban indigenous peoples and migration and indigenous children and youth.
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Abstract:Indigenous peoples were facing a growing crisis as climate change, unchecked economic growth and discriminatory national laws forced them from their lands into urban areas that offered them insufficient social services, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues heard today during a full-day debate devoted to, among other themes, urban indigenous peoples and migration and indigenous children and youth.