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COVID-19 Related Concerns

29
June

AMAZON GOLD RUSH The threatened tribe. Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon (6-26-20)

June 29, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Related Concerns, Infographics, Maps
By SALSA

AMAZON GOLD RUSH. The threatened tribe. Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon Marco Hernandez, Simon Scarr and Anthony Boadle 6-26-20 Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of...

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24
June

Waorani Nation Wins COVID-19 Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government to Prevent Ethnocide in the Amazon (6-18-20)

June 24, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Related Concerns
By SALSA

Waorani Nation Wins COVID-19 Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government to Prevent Ethnocide in the Amazon Sophie Pinchetti, Amazon Frontlines 6-18-20 A little over one year after the Waorani People’s historic legal victory, which protected half-a-million acres of rainforest from oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the indigenous nation has...

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Brazil failure to protect indigenous
15
June

SALSA Letter to Brazilian authorities on failure to protect the health and safety of Indigenous population (6-15-20)

June 15, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, Anthropology & SALSA on COVID-19, COVID-19 Lowland South America, COVID-19 Related Concerns, Public Issues News, SALSA Action Statements
By SALSA

SALSA Letter to Brazilian Authorities On Brazil’s failure to protect the health and safety of Indigenous population during the COVID-19 pandemic 15 June 2020 Português Español [pdf-embedder url="https://salsa-tipiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PIAC-Brazil-Covid-19-Response-June-15-2020.pdf" title="PIAC Brazil Covid-19 Response June 15 2020"]   ...

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13
June

The U’wa Community’s Nonviolent Resistance to COVID-19 and Attacks in Colombia (6-11-20)

June 13, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Lowland South America, COVID-19 Related Concerns
By SALSA

The U'wa Community's Nonviolent Resistance to COVID-19 and Attacks in Colombia Andrew E. Miller 6-11-20 The U'wa Indigenous Guard, active in the cloud forest of Colombia near the border with Venezuela, were formed to nonviolently defend U'wa territory from a multitude of external threats from extractive companies and...

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Cultural survival indigenous peoples covid-19
08
June

For the right to be named and counted: Indigenous Peoples excluded from COVID-19 Statistics (6-4-20)

June 8, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Indigenous positions, COVID-19 Lowland South America, COVID-19 Related Concerns
By SALSA

For the right to be named and counted: Indigenous Peoples are excluded from COVID-19 Statistics Bia'ni Madsa' Juárez López and Jess Cherofsky, Cultural Survival 4 June 2020 Countries across the world have faced difficulties in attempting to produce data on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. While...

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