Tag: Illegal mining

• Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Garimpeiros leave Yanomami land before armed forces takeover

  

  Illegal miners known as garimpeiros are beginning to leave the lands of the Yanomami indigenous peoples after a federal raid to evict them was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara told reporters Sunday.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:50 UTC

  Lula vows to halt garimpo on Indigenous lands

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to halt all illegal gold mining -locally known as garimpo- at Indigenous reserves in the country's northeast if he is elected back into office in October.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Mercury's effects on Bolivian indigenous peoples to be exposed before IACHR

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is to be briefed on the effects of mercury contamination on indigenous peoples of Bolivia as a direct result of intensive mining, it was announced Friday.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Native Brazilians to tell UN violence, illegal mining on the rise

  

  Groups of native Brazilians are to appear before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) to condemn the increase of illegal mining and violence in their communities, including death threats, raids, and forced displacements, the Missionary Indigenous Council (CIMI) announced this week.

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Venezuelan NGOs denounce environmental damages caused by illegal mining

  

  Environmentalist organizations have called on the Venezuelan government to take action in view of the damage caused by illegal mining in an area near the Colombian border.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Research shows illegal mining in Brazil on the rise

  

  A scientific report released Monday by the organization MapBiomas showed that 65% of mining activities carried out in the Brazilian Amazon basin were not legal.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous groups exposed to coronavirus and swarms of illegal gold miners

  

  The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Criminal gangs control Venezuelan Amazon mining gold, diamonds, coltan, UN report

  

  Some gold, diamond and bauxite mines in the Venezuelan Amazon are largely controlled by criminal gangs who exploit, beat, and even kill workers, a United Nations investigation has found. Venezuelan security and military forces fail to prevent crimes and have participated in some violence against miners, the UN human rights office said in a report on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Catholic Church claims invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped under the Bolsonaro administration

  

  The number of invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped in the first nine months of President Jair Bolsonaro's administration, a Brazilian Catholic Church agency said on Tuesday. The Missionary Indigenous Council said illegal miners, loggers and tappers of natural resources are involved in most of the invasions.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 20:59 UTC

  Venezuelan gold crisis: US imposes sanctions on state mining company

  

  United States Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Venezuelan state-run ferrous metals mining Company, Minerven, and its President, Adrián Antonio Perdomo on Tuesday for promoting “illicit” gold operations that have continued to prop up the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.