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Deforestation in Para

As deforestation surges, Brazil moves to weaken indigenous and environmental safeguards (4-29-20)

As deforestation surges, Brazil moves to weaken indigenous and environmental safeguards Lucy Jordan and Ana Terra Athayde 4-29-2020 Critics accuse Bolsonaro and allies of using the pandemic as cover to rush through amnesty for past destruction and occupation of forested land, and expose indigenous land to higher risk...

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Peru indigenous warn of ‘ethnocide by inaction’ as coronavirus hits Amazon tribes (4-24-20)

Peru indigenous warn of 'ethnocide by inaction' as coronavirus hits Amazon tribes Maria Cervantes 4-24-2020 Indigenous tribes in Peru’s Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction,” according to a letter from natives to the United Nations and...

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Lizardo Cauper

ONU acepta demanda de Aidesep contra el Gobierno por “desatención” ante COVID-19 (29-4-20)

ONU acepta demanda de Aidesep contra el Gobierno por “desatención” ante COVID-19 Luis Chacón 29-4-2020 La Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (Aidesep) informó que la demanda presentada contra el Gobierno peruano ante Naciones Unidas (ONU) por “desatención evidente y reiterada discriminación” en los planes para...

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La voz de protesta de los indígenas amazónicos ante manejo de la pandemia (4-28-20)

La voz de protesta de los indígenas amazónicos ante manejo de la pandemia Semana Sostenible 4-28-2020 La Opiac responsabiliza al Gobierno y los entes territoriales de Amazonas y Caquetá por no mitigar el avance del coronavirus. Denuncia pasividad, inoperancia, incapacidad institucional y corrupción en el manejo de los...

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