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Indigenous Rights Violations Back In Brazilian Courts
Dam license could be suspended due to violations of social and environmental conditions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sheyla Juruna leads a...
New Large Dams in Amazon Could Lead to Ecosystem Collapse
From September 2013 World Rivers Review The Amazon Basin is being transformed into a global economic frontier by intense global...
Sex Trafficking Ringmaster Busted on Belo Monte
Construction continues at the Belo Monte Dam work sites, outside of the towns of Altamira and Vitória do Xingu. Police...
Indigenous Protests and Unity in Brasília: The fight for the Amazon has just begun
Indigenous delegation from the Tapajós and Xingu, soon after their arrival in BrasíliaBy Brent Millikan In the late morning of...
Update from the Amazon: Indigenous Protestors Arrive in Brasília to Demand Rights
Two Air Force planes carrying aboard some 140 indigenous representatives of the Munduruku, Xipaya, Xicrin/Kayapó and other tribes participating in...
Another Standoff in the Amazon
Indigenous people occupy the controversial Belo Monte dam construction site saying they were not properly consulted. This blog originally appeared...
Update from the Amazon: Letter 8 from the Occupation
The indigenous protestors of the Belo Monte Dam site are under threat of being attacked and forcibly removed from their...
Update from the Amazon: No consultation, No construction!
Thanks to colleagues at Amazon Watch and Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre for this information and the translation of the...
PR: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Site
Amazon indigenous leaders join protest demanding protection of World Heritage site in Turkey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hasankeyf, Turkey: Representatives of...
Update from the Amazon: the Struggle Continues
Late at night on May 8, a federal judge declared that the peaceful protestors from seven Amazonian indigenous groups could...