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 | | heads of families and family members, has not always been positive: membership in 1996 and 1999 was down on the preceding years and, in absolute terms, the overall growth rate between 1996 and 2000 was 1.7 per cent, with membership figures rising from 873,382 to 954,663 during that period. |
 | | The State of Ecuador recognizes that indigenous and Black or Afro-Ecuadorian peoples are part of the State and guarantees their collective rights to maintain, develop and reinforce their spiritual, cultural, linguistic, social, political and economic identity and traditions. |
 | | Ecuador recognizes the tenets, systems and practices of traditional medicine among these peoples and their right to protection for their ritual and sacred places and for the plants, animals, minerals and ecosystems of key significance to them. |
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