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SAO PAULO (AP) — The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: HRW Letter on a Case of Police Abuses in the Brazilian Amazon
Dear UN Special Rapporteur Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to bring to your attention a series of killings and acts of torture allegedly committed by police in an ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil
ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Cofco signed 2006 agreement to protect Brazil's Amazon forest with soy farming moratorium Mato Grosso law strips tax incentives from conservation program participants Emboldened ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Security: In the Brazilian Amazon, sustainability policies clash with development goals
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Authorities in the Brazilian authorities have proven to be ambivalent when it comes to the environment. They generally adhere to discourses of ...