31.   Among their goals is a permanent United Nations forum on indigenous rights.

32.   Beyond that, Fox said, plans call for development of education, environmental protection, indigenous rights and tourism, as well as cooperation in disaster relief.

33.   But indigenous rights groups have long criticized it as a racially discriminatory program that causes communal violence.

34.   But indigenous rights groups have long criticized it as racially discriminatory one that promotes communal violence.

35.   But its promise to protect indigenous rights was soon broken by settlers who transformed tribal land and forests into farms and towns.

36.   He won new democratic elections last year and has called for racial reconciliation while saying he will also advance indigenous rights.

37.   However, staunch indigenous rights activists have criticized calls for reform.

38.   However, PRD members agreed to ask the government to delay executing a new law on indigenous rights in order to allow input from Zapatista rebels.

39.   Interior Secretary Francisco Labstida Ochoa said Saturday the new law on indigenous rights is a very important step in the search for a peaceful solution.

40.   It was among a number of accords, dealing with issues including agrarian reform and indigenous rights, that the rebels insisted upon before considering a final peace agreement.