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- ↑ Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing: Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer. 2011. ISBN 9789048131235.
- ↑ Vernie Yocogan-Diano (video). Canada: KAIROS Canada.
- ↑ Development Aggression as Economic Growth (PDF) (Report). Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact. 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
- ↑ Doyle, Cathal; Gilbert, Jérémie (2011). "Indigenous peoples and globalization: from 'development aggression' to 'self-determined development". European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Leiden, Netherlands. pp. 219–262.
- ↑ "Development aggression called new form of human rights violation". December 20, 1994.
- ↑ "Indigenous peoples gather, update agenda". Nordis. August 11, 2013.
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