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Ethnic land rights fail to provide Afro-Colombians with economic security

The legal rights designed to protect Afro-Colombian communities are not lifting them out of economic precarity—and are leaving them vulnerable to the illegal drug trade and illicit mining as a result—according to new research from The University of Manchester.

Ethnic land rights fail to provide Afro-Colombians with economic security
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The legal rights designed to protect Afro-Colombian communities are not lifting them out of economic precarity—and are leaving them vulnerable to the illegal drug trade and illicit mining as a result—according to new research from The University of Manchester.

Originally published at Phys.org

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