As climate and conflict collide, Indigenous leaders confront overlapping crises at the UN
via grist.org
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Although it’s been nearly 20 years since more than 100 countries adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights and lives of those it is meant to protect remain under constant threat from compounding crises. Indigenous lands are battered by record-breaking storms, dessicated by drought, and vanishing under rising seas. […]