“Better to be safe than sorry” is how she put it in a recent interview at United Nations headquarters, chuckling at herself, which she does often, even when she is talking about ghoulish things. “It’s so lonely to be out of the country,” she said. Ms. Tauli-Corpuz denies it. Indeed, that is the theme of her next report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, scheduled to be published in the summer. “It affects her life, it puts her life at threat,” Myrna Cunningham Kain, a Nicaraguan who is also an advocate for indigenous peoples, said of Ms. Tauli-Corpuz, her friend of 30 years.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2018 20:36 UTC