Paraguay: UN Fails Uncontacted Indians

Paraguay: UN Fails Uncontacted Indians   The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay.   Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact saying they are ‘concerned and frustrated’ by the inclusion in it of a controversial Brazilian ranching company.   The company, Yaguarete Porá, was charged and fined for illegally clearing the Ayoreo’s forests, and...

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