Brazil
‘The entire village had Covid’: Testimony of a Xingu woman
March 23, 2022The women’s leader of the Xingu Indigenous Territory, the eldest daughter of one important tribal chief and the niece of another, Watatakalu Yawalapiti watched her family be devastated by Covid.
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Right-wing law means Brazil will extend coal use for another 18 years
January 10, 2022Extending coal use “contradicts the energy transition, with significant environmental impacts, and extends to inefficient costs for all energy consumers."
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Commodity traders accused of death threats and violence against Brazilian Indigenous communities
November 24, 2021“We resist because we need to remain in our territory. If we give up our land to them, what are we going to live off?”
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El destino de los últimos Piripkura está en manos bolsonarismo
September 24, 2021La ordenanza de protección territorial de la tierra indígena Piripkura expira el 18 de septiembre.
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Fate of the Piripkura tribe in hands of agency controlled by Bolsonaro
September 24, 2021“White men” had arrived in their remote forest in the northwest of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, ready to plunder Indigenous land.
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