Sharing the challenges of the Indigenous Peoples (IP), Andrea Carmen, of the Yaqui Nation, and Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council (ITC), discusses the important strides made by IP through the international treaties adopted by United Nations. These treaties have provided the long needed international legal instruments to protect the human rights of IP, including their sacred places that are inherent to their identities, culture, heritage and connectivity to the land. An impassioned activist, she discusses the importance of protecting these sacred areas from desecrati
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