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12 Dec 2014

Author:
Megan Rowling, Thompson Reuters Foundation

Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights

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" Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights", 10 December 2014

Rights experts and civil society groups issued an open letter on Wednesday to ministers attending U.N. climate talks in Lima, urging governments to enshrine "human rights for all" in the new global climate deal due to be agreed at the end of 2015.

At the same time, thousands of Peruvians and indigenous people from the Andean and Amazon regions marched shoulder to shoulder with climate activists from around the world on the traffic-choked streets of Lima.

They called for urgent action to tackle climate change and the environmental problems affecting communities dependent on natural resources for their survival...[refers to Newmont Mining]

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