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Brazil Cuts Poverty, But Human Rights Are Still a Serious Problem

Virtually all of the 169 recommendations made to Brazil by the UN Human Rights ...

A fisherman inspects the area of the new hydroelectric - Photo: Gustavo Faleiros

Once Expelled from Belo Monte, Brazil’s River People Are Back to Their Old Spot

All is not quiet on Brazil’s western frontier. Families that were displaced from their ...

Açaí, Brazil Nuts and Other Amazon Trees Are Only Abundant Thanks to Ancient Indians

Ancient indigenous peoples had a far more profound impact on the composition of the ...

Rio Carnaval Parade Celebrating the Amazon Indians Leaves Big Farm Livid

Rio’s Carnaval festivities were threatened this year by a spat pitting a well-known parade ...

End of a Myth: Hydropower Doesn’t Mean Green Energy

From the Amazon Basin to boreal forests, and from the Mekong to the Himalayan ...

For Brazilian Indians the Bad from Rousseff’s Era Has Become Worse

In addition to being a politician and a constitutionalist lawyer, President Michel Temer is ...

Every Six Days, a Guarani Indian in Brazil Kills Himself. This Has to Stop

We need to talk about the mental health of the Guarani-Kaiowá people in Brazil. ...

Indians, Satellites, Helicopters, Machine Guns: All Is Fair in the War to Defend the Amazon

When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have ...