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Indigenous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining
By Brenda Norrell
Indigenous peoples from around the world, victims of uranium mining,
nuclear testing, and nuclear dumping, issued a global ban on uranium
mining on native lands.
The declaration, signed during the Indigenous World Uranium Summit,
held Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2006 on the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona,
brought together Australian aboriginals and villagers from India and
Africa. Pacific islanders joined with indigenous peoples from the
Americas to take action and halt the cancer, birth defects, and death
from uranium and nuclear industries on native lands.
Brenda Norrell is a freelance writer based in Tucson, Arizona, focusing
on indigenous rights in the Americas. She has covered Indian country
news for 23 years, serving as a staff reporter for the Navajo Times and
Indian Country Today and a stringer for the Associated Press. She is a
contributor to the IRC Americas Program at www.americaspolicy.org.
See new IRC article online at:
http://americas.irc-online.org/amcit/3963
With printer-friendly pdf version at:
http://americas.irc-online.org/pdf/series/0702Uranium.pdf
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