Venezuela and Brazil: Violence and destruction escalate in the Yanomami territory
4 Yanomami people shot dead in Venezuela by soldiers, with others injured.
News from the Yanomami
Serious risk of attack by miners on uncontacted Yanomami in Brazil
Goldminers are now working extremely closely to uncontacted Yanomami and violence is imminent.
Crisis in Yanomami territory as goldminers launch series of attacks
A major humanitarian crisis is engulfing the Yanomami.
Armed miners launch violent attacks on Yanomami in Brazil
Heavily armed goldminers have launched a series of attacks on the Yanomami community of Palimiú in the northern Amazon.
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.
Government complicity and neglect fuels lethal coronavirus among Yanomami and Ye’kwana
An explosive new report released this week exposes a humanitarian crisis rapidly unfolding in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory.
Gold miners kill two Yanomami men, fears of further bloodshed
Two Yanomami men killed by illegal gold miners in Brazil, as a massive gold rush brings death and disease.
Yanomami launch global campaign as goldminers and Covid-19 endanger entire tribe
The Yanomami tribe has launched a global campaign to expel 20,000 gold miners from their land amid the coronavirus pandemic.