The People United: Global Indigenous People’s Movements

Daniel Peplow and Sarah Augustine, a couple who co-founded the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund are raising awareness of how gold mining resulted in mercury contamination in many streams and rivers that are the lifeblood of indigenous people. Native communities in Suriname — the small, largely jungle country in South America — are now seeing more birth defects, stillbirths and other deformities.
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