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Paraguay - our land, our past, our future

We're only asking for what is ours

The Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities in Paraguay have been fighting for nearly two decades to get traditional land – vital to their identity and way of life – returned to them. In ...

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"We're only asking for what is ours"
The Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities are living beside a main highway in miserable conditions because their traditional territories ar...

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