Paraguay: Realizing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Paraguay

Paraguay: Realizing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Paraguay   In Paraguay, the vast majority of the indigenous population - 91,5 per cent - lives in rural areas. Half of it is concentrated in the region of Chaco, in the northern part of the country.   The Chaco region is of difficult access and has little infrastructure, leaving the population there isolated and marginalized. Many indigenous peoples work in slave-like conditions, face poverty and extreme poverty and those who move to urban...

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