UN: COVID-19 ‘grave threat’ to the world’s Indigenous people
Indigenous people around the world live in remote areas without adequate health facilities, clean water, sanitation.
10 Aug 2020
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Indigenous people around the world live in remote areas without adequate health facilities, clean water, sanitation.
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