Open Letter Regarding the Recent Amazon Fires in Brazil Amazon fires' explosion is not natural, and this year’s record-breaking conflagration is not new. Indigenous peoples have managed fire in an ecologically sustainable fashion for millennia. But since Brazil began to encourage agricultural colonization in the region...
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Letter to the Venezuelan Government Regarding Crimes against Pemón Indigenous Peoples The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the crimes against Pemón indigenous people by security forces of...
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Indigenous human rights in Brazil - SALSA Letter to Dilma Rousseff Our letter denouncing the systemic disregard for indigenous human rights in Brazil was delivered and officially registered in Brasilia on Tuesday, February 23 2016. Carbondale, Illinois, USA, 18 February 2016 Dilma Rousseff Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil Gabinete...
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Tribal Chiefs Talk At Oxford University "Tribal chiefs from Brazil stressed the importance of the Amazon rainforest in a talk at Oxford University. It has been the life’s work of Raoni Metuktire and Megaron Txucarramae to promote the interests of Amazonian indigenous tribes. They spoke at Christ...
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Agressões em Belo Monte Indígenas Denunciam Agressões em Belo Monte. Protestos de índios no local de construção da hidrelétrica já dura cinco dias. Índios Xikrin denunciaram ao Ministério Público Federal (MPF) que foram recebidos com bombas e balas de borracha ao tentarem entrar no canteiro de...
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Exploração sexual de meninas indígenas O Ministério Público Federal no Amazonas (MPF/AM) entrou com ação civil pública para pedir a condenação de dez pessoas acusadas de praticarem diversos crimes relacionados à exploração sexual de meninas e adolescentes indígenas em São Gabriel da Cachoeira, cidade a 852...
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