Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

A Nepalese indigenous woman attends a program to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People in Kathmandu on August 9. Various ethnic and indigenous people of Nepal took part in a parade calling for the preservation of their cultural identity.

Indigenous peoples of the world unite

This woman wasn't on her own for too long. The wires moved various pictures showing larger crowds of people attending this event, but this was the image that caught my attention.

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