“Indigenous rights are those, which relate to indigenous people, their way of life, their land and their resources. They are connected in nature and the birthrights of indigenous people.”

Closing address to the Roundtable on Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Nationalism, Suva, 23 July 2005.

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