Tag: indigenous communities

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  New Chilean constitution will reserve 17 of 155 congressional seats for indigenous communities

  

  Chilean lawmakers late on Tuesday approved a bill to reserve 17 of 155 seats for representatives of indigenous communities in its upcoming constitutional convention, a measure lauded as “historic” by the government of center-right President Sebastian Piñera.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Indigenous communities stall Ecuador's most ambitious copper mining project

  

  Conflicts with indigenous communities have stalled operations at Ecuador's San Carlos Panantza copper mining project, which the government of President Lenin Moreno had long pointed to as an example of mining sector expansion that would generate US$ 40 billion in export revenue over the next decade.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Major US funds involved in Amazon degradation and indigenous rights violations, claim environmental groups

  

  Major US financial firms are helping fund environmental destruction and indigenous rights abuses in the Amazon with billions of dollars in investments in questionable companies, according to a report published on Tuesday.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Amazon forest Chief blasts Bolsonaro for blaming wildfire on tribes: “that is a lie”

  

  Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon, condemned Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for blaming wildfires devastating the rainforest on indigenous people.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:38 UTC

  Brazilian top expert in Amazon tribes killed by an arrow in the chest

  

  A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness reported. Rieli Franciscato, 56, had spent his career as an official in the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, working to set up reservations to protect Brazil's tribes.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  Indigenous communities in Brazil equipped with a “Covid-19 Alert” to keep track of the pandemic

  

  Indigenous and environmental organizations in Brazil launched an app on Friday aimed at alerting indigenous communities to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in their lands.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  Amazon indigenous protest demanding environment compensation from Brazilian government and improved Covid-19 care

  

  Indigenous protesters in Brazil agreed on Tuesday to suspend their roadblock of a key highway amid a court battle but vowed to fight on for more help against COVID-19 and an end to deforestation.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Bolsonaro vetoes provisions of a law to aid vulnerable indigenous communities

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday vetoed provisions of a law that obligated the federal government to provide drinking water, disinfectants, and a guarantee of hospital beds to indigenous communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Desperate efforts to save indigenous people from tribes in the Amazon rainforest

  

  The novel coronavirus is spreading so fast among the indigenous people in the furthest parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest that doctors are now evacuating critical COVID-19 patients by plane to the only intensive care units in the vast region.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil indigenous leaders call on WHO to set an emergency fund to protect their communities

  

  Indigenous leaders in Brazil have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.