
Brazil: 439,000 signature petition to be handed in to Congress for Yanomami Covid campaign
The "MinersOutCovidOut" petition calls for the immediate expulsion of 20,000 illegal miners from inside the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
The "MinersOutCovidOut" petition calls for the immediate expulsion of 20,000 illegal miners from inside the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
An explosive new report released this week exposes a humanitarian crisis rapidly unfolding in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory.
Two Yanomami men killed by illegal gold miners in Brazil, as a massive gold rush brings death and disease.
The Yanomami tribe has launched a global campaign to expel 20,000 gold miners from their land amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Davi Kopenawa warns that uncontacted Yanomami “could soon be exterminated” if the Brazilian authorities do not act now.
Renowned Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” receives this year’s Right Livelihood Award
Renowned Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” has won this year’s Right Livelihood Award
Up to 10,000 goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, spreading disease and polluting rivers with mercury.
A measles epidemic has hit the Yanomami tribe on the Brazil-Venezuela border who have little immunity to the disease.
Uncontacted Yanomami who came to global attention in November at acute risk of annihilation as a result of cuts