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  United Nations recognized the wrong doing to the indigenous groups living in Paraguay Commercial farming has been polluting the traditional farming lands of indigenous people’s traditional lands grossly violating their rights and their sense of “home”, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a landmark ruling recently. The United Nations has now admitted that it is important to understand that for indigenous people, “home” should be understood in the context of their special relationship with their territories, including their livestock, crops and way of life. This also means that, “for indigenous peoples, their lands represent their home, culture and community. Serious environmental damages have severe impacts on indigenous people’s family life, tradition, identity and even lead to the disappearance of their community. It dramatically harms the existence of the culture of the group as a whole,” said Committee member Hélène Tigroudja.  The committee comprises 18...

Taiwan is also using vaccine diplomacy to win allies to its end.... Taiwan has been generous to help its only South American ally with the Covid-19 vaccine. This is indeed a time when everyone should forget enmity and come on a level playing ground to help each other. The help comes after people went up and arms against the Paraguayan government for having let them down over shoddy medical facilities and no vaccine supply to combat the increasing number of cases of the virus spread.   Taiwan is clear that the help they are extending Paraguay has nothing to do with the vaccine supply they have received for their own country. Taiwan has faced a lot of repression against China, due to which it has found it difficult to create its own trade relations with any country. As of now, only 15 countries have formal diplomatic relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, and Taipei has long been nervous at Beijing's efforts to entice away its remaining friends. This is indeed new-age diplomacy...