Brazil official says Yanomami region looks like “concentration camp”
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said on Tuesday. “It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba, a doctor appointed to the position by Brazil’s new government, said in a radio […]
Brazil renews protection of little-seen Amazon tribe for six months
Brasilia, BrazilReuters The only two known male members of the Piripkura tribe in Brazil live in isolation on ancestral lands the size of Luxembourg in the Amazon rainforest, resisting decades of invasion by loggers and cattle ranchers. Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency Funai renewed a protection order on Friday for the 242,500-hectare area in western Mato […]
Hands off our cultural heritage, say world’s Indigenous people
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation From disappearing languages to selfie-taking tourists at sacred sites, preserving native cultural heritage has become a race against the clock, Indigenous groups said. The suicide of an Indigenous rights activist protesting against Russia’s language policies has highlighted the cultural threats native communities face across the globe as they fight for their […]
Indigenous leader’s killing exposes land threat in Brazil
Thomson Reuters Foundation An Indigenous leader has been found murdered in Brazil, exposing the growing threat to tribes fighting illegal logging in the Amazon, campaigners and authorities said. Jorginho Guajajara was found dead in the northern state of Maranhao with his neck broken, rights group Survival International said. Police in Maranhao confirmed on Thursday they were investigating […]
Indigenous people fighting for land rights
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up more than half of all land globally, but they legally own just 10 per cent. The right of indigenous people to land and territories is protected by international legal conventions including the United Nations’ Declaration […]