BrazilMining & Drilling
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Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most threatened tribe
(8/5/2012)
(Brazil) -- A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of...
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Labor & Unions
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International Labor Organization Concerned With Lack of Indigenous Input on Belo Monte
(3/10/2012)
(Brazil) -- Continued construction of the Belo Monte dam, a huge and controversial hydroelectric plant on Brazil’s Xingú River raised red flags for a committee of...
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Other News
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Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers from Yanomami land
(5/11/2013)
(Brazil) -- The Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians.
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Brazil clips wings of Indian affairs office in land dispute
(5/8/2013)
(Brazil) -- The Brazilian government sought to appease the country's powerful farm lobby on Wednesday by broadening the decision-making process used to designate...
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200 indigenous people take control of key Belo Monte construction site
(5/5/2013)
(Brazil) -- On Thursday roughly 200 indigenous people launched an occupation of a key construction site for the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Amazon Indians occupy controversial dam to demand a say (Photos)
(5/5/2013)
(Brazil) -- Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric...
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Amazon Tribe Faces Extinction Due To Illegal Logging While Brazilian Government Stands By
(4/19/2013)
(Brazil) -- Illegal logging in the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest has the people of the Awa tribe running for their lives - again.
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Brazilian Indigenous Storm Congress Halting Vote on Territorial Rights
(4/19/2013)
(Brazil) -- Hundreds of indigenous protestors occupied the Brazilian Congress on Tuesday, April 16th, in an effort to stop a law that could weaken territorial rights of...
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Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
(4/17/2013)
(Brazil) -- The controversial Belo Monte Dam, which is under construction on the Xingu River in the Brazilian state of Pará, is roughly twenty percent completed.
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Brazil Indian-farmer standoff intensifies, tribes storm Congress
(4/17/2013)
(Brazil) -- Brazilian Indians are trying to derail a congressional proposal to change the way indigenous lands are recognized, intensifying a standoff between the...
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Brazil's indigenous protest to defend ancestral lands
(4/17/2013)
(Brazil) -- Hundreds of indigenous people from across Brazil pressed Congress Tuesday to block a reform package meant to benefit farmers which they say threatens their...
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Brazilian Indians occupy Congress to protest proposed constitutional amendment on land
(4/17/2013)
(Brazil) -- About 700 Brazilian Indians are occupying part of the lower house of Congress to protest a proposed amendment that would give Congress a say in the...
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Despite Legal Victories Awa Territory Still Full of Invaders in Brazil
(4/11/2013)
(Brazil) -- The Awa people of Maranhao state, in northeastern Brazil, have turned in desperation to the international community to help protect their territory according...
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The Unknown Indian: The Incredible Story of an Uncontacted Tribe Member
(4/10/2013)
(Brazil) -- His name means "Hawk" in his language. Yet even with the acuity of vision the moniker suggests, Karapiru could not have foreseen the tragedy that...
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Amazon tribe threatens to declare war amid row over Brazilian dam project
(4/4/2013)
(Brazil) -- An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by...
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Indigenous Protestors File Suit in Brazil After Violent Eviction in Rio
(4/4/2013)
(Brazil) -- More than a week after the Brazilian Police’s Shock Battalion evicted indigenous and allied protestors using tear gas, pepper spray and batons from a...
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Awá tribe's desperate call to evict loggers
(4/1/2013)
(Brazil) -- An Amazonian indigenous group said to be the Earth's most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil's government to evict invaders from...
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'Most Threatened' Tribe Sees No Relief from Illegal Loggers
(3/30/2013)
(Brazil) -- A deadline to remove illegal loggers and settlers from the lands of one of the most threatened tribes on Earth appears poised to pass without action in...
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From The Stone Age To The Digital Age In One Big Leap
(3/29/2013)
(Brazil) -- In the heart of the Amazon in western Brazil, an Indian tribe called the Surui lived in the Stone Age as recently as the late 1960s. They wore loincloths,...
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Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe and curb deforestation
(3/27/2013)
(Brazil) -- As a small boy in the early ’80s, Almir Surui hunted monkeys with a bow and arrow, wore a loincloth and struggled with Brazil’s official language...
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Indians, police clash at Rio complex near Maracana to be razed for 2014 World Cup
(3/23/2013)
(Brazil) -- Pandemonium broke out in the shadow of Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium on Friday as riot police raided an old museum that authorities want razed...
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Loggers 'burned Amazon tribe girl alive'
(2/18/2013)
(Brazil) -- Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon's last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force...
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