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- Jul 12, 2020
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Brazil’s Yanomami ask OAS for help keeping out miners, COVID-19
- Jun 24, 2020
The Hutukara Yanomami Association and Brazil’s National Council for Human Rights petitioned the Organization of American States to issue a restraining order for the Brazilian government, so illegal miners and gold miners withdraw from indigenous land.
Amazon missionary says health care system collapsing under COVID-19
- Jun 3, 2020
It’s a paradox that the ancestral guardians of the world’s lungs now “lack oxygen to survive,” says one missionary to the Amazon region, which has been hard hit by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
In Brazil, lay missioners see effects of environmental disasters
- May 25, 2020
Deep in the Amazon, a perfect storm of environmental issues came to the attention of the world through a series of fires in the rainforest that lasted from August through October.
Indigenous infections grew amid slow Brazil agency response
- May 19, 2020
As COVID-19 reached remote indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon, the government agency responsible for protecting native people brushed off calls for action, focusing instead on waging ideological battles, according to agents from the institution itself and others.
Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon
- May 19, 2020
Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.”
Bishops in Amazon urge Peru to guard indigenous needs during pandemic
- Apr 24, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic increasingly exposes fault lines between the rich and poor, the eight bishops of Peru’s Amazonian region have urged the government to pay particular attention to the needs of indigenous people.
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