Yanomami slam government over mining
Yanomami and Yekuana Indians from two communities have denounced the Brazilian government’s attempts to persuade them to accept large-scale mining on their land.
News from the Yanomami
UK’s Channel 4 to expose mining on Yanomami land
The acclaimed Channel 4 current affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, is to broadcast a documentary tomorrow exposing the devastating effects of illegal goldmining on the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
Yanomami - ‘Mining project will bring death to our people’
Yanomami Indian leaders in Brazil have claimed that a project to open indigenous land for mining would ‘bring death’ to their tribe.
Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.
Illegal goldminers invade Yanomami land
More than a thousand illegal goldminers have invaded the land of the Yanomami Indians in Brazilian Amazonia.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami threatened with death
A rancher who is illegally occupying land within the Yanomami indigenous territory in Brazil has threatened to kill renowned Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa.
Brazilian Indian leader – Germany must sign international law
Brazilian shaman Davi Yanomami delivered a letter to the German Chancellor’s office this week, urging the German government to sign the key international law on tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169.
Police arrest health officials for fraud
Federal police in Brazil arrested 35 people suspected of misappropriation of funds from the National Health Foundation, FUNASA, in the state of Roraima yesterday.