Amid Growing Violence, Brazil Is Weakening Indigenous Rights
Amid Growing Violence, Brazil Is Weakening Indigenous Rights
By
Adolfo Chavez , Cándido Mezúa
Research shows this comes at great social, economic and environmental cost.
Brazil has some of the world’s strongest protections for indigenous rights – on paper. In reality, dozens of indigenous people are killed each year in conflicts over land and resources. Brazil is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders. Even as this violence escalates, the current government is working to weaken these rights through a series of...
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