Genocide Watch
Nov 5, 2021
Country Report: Brazil November 2021
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a virtual global climate summit via a video link in Brasilia, Brazil April 22, 2021. Marcos...
Genocide Watch
Sep 22, 2021
Timestream: Ecocide in Brazil
Genocide Watch staff have published the twenty-sixth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream tracks...
The Guardian
Sep 13, 2021
Indigenous Women Fight to Save Land in Brazil
Tom Phillips in Brasília and Flávia Milhorance in Rio de Janeiro | The Guardian Friday, 10 Sep 2021, 11.42 EDT Jair Bolsonaro is backing...
Al Jazeera
Aug 24, 2021
Brazil’s Court to rule on Indigenous land rightS
Prior to 1988, Brazil’s Indigenous people were ‘hunted down’, their ‘ears cut off’ by paid killers for big landowners. A Brazilian...
Al Jazeera
Aug 8, 2021
Indigenous group sues Bolsonaro for ‘genocide’
Far-right president has led ‘an explicit, systematic’ anti-Indigenous policy since taking office in 2019, group alleges. Indigenous...
Al Jazeera
Apr 6, 2021
"I fear for Asian communities in Brazil"
As anti-Asian hate crimes rise in the Western world, can Brazil avoid joining the trend? Gabriel Leão | Al Jazeera Gabriel Leão is a...
The Telegraph
Feb 23, 2021
Last surviving male member of exterminated Brazilian indigenous group dies of Covid
Aruká Juma's death comes amid a failure to protect native communities from the pandemic. The last surviving man of an exterminated...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 19, 2021
Brazil: Secret Process to Change Human Rights Policy
Exclusion of Civil Society from Discussions Raises Concern The administration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro should ensure that...
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Dec 11, 2020
Killing of two girls stokes outrage over Brazil's horrific toll of black lives
Tom Phillips in Duque de Caxias Mon 7 Dec 2020 18.43 GMT Shooting of cousins aged just four and seven, allegedly by police, heightens...
Kiratiana Freelon | The Root
Apr 26, 2018
‘Genocide of Black People’: The Killing of Afro-Brazilians by Police Is an Injustice Marielle Franco
Artists like Juliana Fervo have painted murals of Marielle Franco across Rio de Janeiro. (Photo: Kiratiana Freelon) They walked 2.5 miles...
The Guardian
Mar 5, 2018
Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners
It was a modest ceremony for such a significant victory: it is not every day that the descendants of enslaved people are given the title...
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Apr 26, 2017
Brazil police, indigenous people clash in land rights protest
Brazilian military police in front of Congress fired tear gas and rubber bullets at indigenous protesters, who responded with arrows and...
