Photos by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service, 2007
The indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco region are spread across nearly 400,000 square miles of central South America, spanning parts of three countries: Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Longstanding racism, exclusion, and unsustainable development models have deprived them of their economic, social, and cultural rights, including the right to own lands they traditionally inhabited.
CWS and local partners have formed the Integrated Support Program for the Defense and Promotion of the Rights of Native Peoples from the Gran Chaco -- a coordinated effort to defend and promote the rights of the native peoples of Chaco.
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