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June

Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply (6-15-20)

June 17, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Lowland South America
By SALSA

Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply Scott Wallace, National Geographic 6-15-20 With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled...

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17
June

Indigenous peoples guard ‘the lungs of the planet’ for all of us (6-16-20)

June 17, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Lowland South America
By SALSA

Indigenous peoples guard 'the lungs of the planet' for all of us Alnoor Ladha, Felipe Viveros, Al Jazeera 6-16-20 On January 14-18, representatives from 45 Indigenous communities gathered in the small village of Piaracu, in the Xingu Basin of the Amazon, to mobilise against the anti-environmentalist rhetoric and devastating "pro-development"...

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17
June

AIDESEP: Responsabilidades funcionales del MEF en el etnocidio amazónico por el Covid 19 (6-15-20)

June 17, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Indigenous positions
By SALSA

AIDESEP: Responsabilidades funcionales del MEF en el etnocidio amazónico por el Covid 19 AIDESEP 6-15-20 Deseamos manifestar nuestra profunda preocupación por la no transferencia de fondos de presupuesto por parte del MEF para la implementación dela Resolución Ministerial 308-MINSA-2020 del pasado 22 de mayo Este presupuesto es de...

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17
June

Mulheres e Crianças migrantes: vulnerabilidades e formas de resistência na pandemia (6-16-20)

June 17, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Lowland South America
By SALSA

Mulheres e Crianças migrantes: vulnerabilidades e formas de resistência na pandemia Brasil Plural 6-16-20 O GEMA – Grupo de Estudos Migratórios na Amazônia – da UFAM e o INCT Brasil Plural convida para uma conversa sobre “Mulheres e Crianças migrantes: vulnerabilidades e formas de resistência na pandemia”, o...

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16
June

Pueblo Ese Eja registra una fallecida y exige auxilio inmediato (6-15-20)

June 16, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, Confirmed COVID-19, COVID-19 Lowland South America
By SALSA

Pueblo Ese Eja registra una fallecida y exige auxilio inmediato Servindi 6-15-20 La comunidad Palma Real perteneciente al pueblo Ese Eja, registra el fallecimiento de Lupe Heyaijia Dakitahuaji, la primera víctima indígena del covid 19 en el departamento Madre de Dios. Lupe era una reconocida artesana, tejedora de...

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16
June

Río Bobonaza se lleva 30 casas de Sarayaku y el coronavirus llega a sus dominios (6-14-20)

June 16, 2020
In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, Confirmed COVID-19, COVID-19 Lowland South America
By SALSA

Río Bobonaza se lleva 30 casas de Sarayaku y el coronavirus llega a sus dominios Alfredo Cárdenas, El Universo 6-14-20 La inundación de los ríos Bobonaza, Sarakillu y Rotuno no fue lo único que azotó al pueblo de Sarayaku, la pandemia Covid-19 también los alcanzó. Quince días después,...

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