Brazil Indigenous group’s crisis persists after 308 deaths in 2023, report says
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Government’s effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the vast territory, Yanomami leaders said on Friday. The Hutukara Yanomami Association released a report on the year since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian […]
Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation overrun by illegal gold mining, says report
Brasilia Reuters An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report on Monday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support. The report by the Hutukara Yanomami Association found a 46 […]