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Brazil: top indigenous official resigns
Indigenous protests heat up as another Terena protester is shot while trying to occupy lands the Terena say are their territory; tensions continue over the Monte Belo Dam.
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Ecuador violates prior consultation: Amnesty
Amnesty International charges that Ecuador is not respecting the right of indigenous peoples to prior consultation on development decisions impacting their territories.
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Bolivia to open protected areas to oil industry?
Indigenous protests were held in Bolivia against Vice President Álvaro García Linera’s announced plans to open the country’s protected areas to oil and mineral interests.
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Brazil: indigenous protester killed in land dispute
Indigenous people occupy estates and a giant dam’s construction site to press demands for land and rights—just as a report resurfaces on atrocities from the past.
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Brazil: protesters suspend Belo Monte occupation
Activists have ended their most recent occupation of what is to be the world’s third-largest dam, while the center-left government tries to downplay the protests.
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Protesters again block construction at Belo Monte
Police removed journalists from a construction site at a giant dam as they tried to cover the site’s latest occupation by indigenous people opposing the project.
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Brazil: indigenous people occupy Congress
Some 700 indigenous representatives occupied Brazil’s lower-house Chamber of Deupites in a final effort to stop attempts to change the law concerning their territorial rights.
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Ecuador, Peru: oil spills foul Pacific coast, Amazon
Ecuador’s trans-Andean pipeline burst, fouling small farms near the Pacific coast, while Peru declared a state of emergency in the Amazon’s Pastaza Basin over oil contamination.
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Brazil: human trafficking crackdown in Amazon
The Brazilian state of Acre declared a state of “social emergency” in response to a surge of undocumented migrants from neighboring Bolivia and Peru.
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Brazil: Awá tribe’s desperate call to evict loggers
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 their forest homeland.
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Brazil: protesters briefly reoccupy Belo Monte dam
Area residents carried out the fifth occupation in less than a year at a construction site for the $13 billion Belo Monte dam to protest environmental damage.
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Peru: irregularities seen in Bagua massacre case
Charges against Amazonian indigenous leaders in Peru related to the 2009 rainforest uprising are to be heard in a special Lima court for "terrorism" and drug trafficking cases.