Business Week | Brazilian taxpayers can only wait to see if Rousseff's all-in bet on Amazon dams helps or hurts the nation. Arara, Krautler and thousands of others have already felt the damage. That's why Arara risks his life to fight Belo Monte.
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Solidarity with Brazilian Social Movements
Marchers protest against Brazil's backsliding on environmental and human rights policies
"This is a march of solidarity with the Brazilian social movements, human rights advocates, environmental activists, indigenous peoples, and peasant movements. And also in protest against the government's environmental policy."
Dilma Government Backsliding on Environment
As Rio+20 nears, Brazil’s Dilma shouts down critics and undermines her case
Are those of us concerned about the growing and dire threats to the Amazon and its peoples fantasizing about the president's dismal socio-environmental policies? She seems to think so.
Judge Suspends Construction License for Controversial Teles Pires Dam
Public Prosecutors and Federal Judge cite violations of indigenous peoples' rights, guaranteed by Brazilian Constitution and international law
Brasilia, Brazil – A federal judge in Brazil has suspended the construction license of the Teles Pires hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon, citing violations of the rights of the Kayabi, Apiaká and Mundurucu indigenous peoples whose livelihoods are seriously threatened by the project.
Amid Growing Challenges the Battle Continues to Defend Kayapo Territory
Endeavors to demarcate the ancestral indigenous lands known as Kapot Nhinore started 13 years ago, but the process has been foiled by unfulfilled promises, leading to a protracted struggle.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Chevron, Transocean Charged in Brazilian Oil Spill
Reuters | A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed criminal charges on Wednesday against Chevron and drill-rig operator Transocean for a November oil spill, raising the stakes in a legal saga that has added to Chevron's woes in Latin America and could slow Brazil's offshore oil boom.
Caveat Emptor: Law Catches Up with Chevron in Brazil
Chevron is still pursuing its desperate fight to stonewall the process of justice in Ecuador, but in Brazil the company has found that escaping a similar pollution scandal is not so easy.
Brazil Bars Oil Workers From Leaving After Spill
The New York Times | A Brazilian court has ordered 17 employees from two American companies, the oil giant Chevron and the rig operator Transocean, to surrender their passports, barring them from leaving Brazil as authorities prepare to file criminal charges in days in connection with an offshore oil spill.
Kayapo Take Struggle to Brasilia
For over a month Chief Raoni and the Kayapo have suffered threats and intimidation at the hands of cattle ranchers, illegal settlers and hired gunman who are determined to push them off their lands.
The Fight for Amazonia: The Internet Indians
Meet the tribe using the internet to tackle the logging mafias targeting their villages
Al Jazeera | The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
ILO Concerned With Lack of Indigenous Input on Belo Monte
Indian Country Today | Continued construction of the Belo Monte dam, a huge and controversial hydroelectric plant on Brazil's Xingú River raised red flags for a committee of experts from the International Labor Organization (ILO), which called for the country to ensure respect for Indigenous Peoples' rights and priorities.
Brazil’s Women and War – Sheyla’s Tale
Euronews | Sheyla Yakarepi Juruna travels the world to raise awareness about the threats facing the Amazonian forest and its people. Her principal battle is against the Belo Monte Dam project due to be the third largest dam in the world built on the River Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon.
International Labor Organization Raps Brazil over Monster Dam
Mongabay.com | The UN's International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a report stating that the Brazilian government violated the rights of indigenous people by moving forward on the massive Belo Monte dam without consulting indigenous communities.
ILO Says Brazil Violated Convention 169 in Belo Monte Case
International Labor Organization confirms government violated indigenous rights
Altamira, Brazil – A report released by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations for the International Labor Organization (ILO) found the Brazilian government directly violated the rights of indigenous communities in the Xingu region of the Amazon while plowing forward with the controversial Belo Monte...
The Fight for Amazonia: Raids in the Rainforest
Follow Brazil's youngest national park director as she declares war on drug gangs and the logging mafia
Al Jazeera | At the age of 27, Ana Rafaela D'Amico is the youngest national park director in Brazil. In order to save the rainforest, she has declared war on the drug gangs and logging mafia and on illegal fishing.
Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy?
Forbes | Who said women were stewards of the environment? Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon.
Inspiration from the Xingu, A Final Stand
This is why we do what we do. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we committed to these people and to the Amazon. It's because standing in solidarity means much more than a simple expression.
An Evening with the Bacajá Xikrín
An intimate look into the life and culture of the Xikrín Kayapo in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon just kilometers away from where the government is plowing forward to build the Belo Monte Dam that could devastate their way of life.
URGENTE: Cacique Raoni e Indíos Kayapós sob ataque!
Cacique Raoni pediu apoio para pressionar o governo brasileiro para proteger as terras de seu povo contra criminosos armados enviados para intimidá-los.
URGENT: Chief Raoni and the Kayapo Under Attack!
Chief Raoni has called for support to pressure the Brazilian government to protect his people's lands against armed thugs sent by ranchers and illegal settlers to intimidate them and encroach upon their lands.
BNDES Is Partner of Mining Company Voted Worst Company in the World
Gazeta do Acre | Brazilian mining company Vale was voted worst company in the world by the Public Eye Awards, known as the "Nobel" of global corporate shame. BNDES is a Vale partner, with stock holdings that deliver veto power directly to the Brazilian State.
Brazilian Mining Giant Vale Voted Worst Corporation in the World
Company wins prize for leading share in the Belo Monte Dam
San Francisco, CA – After 21 days of public voting, Brazilian iron-ore mining corporation Vale picked up the Public Eye Award, known as the "Nobel Prize of Shame" in the corporate world.
Public Eye Award Singles Out Mining Company Vale
Award given at the same time as the World Economic Forum strives to embarrass companies for "corporate irresponsibility"
The Guardian | Brazilian mining giant Vale picked up the dubious distinction today of being the corporation with the most "contempt for the environment and human rights" in the world.
Dam It: Brazil's Belo Monte Stirs Controversy
About 24,000 people will be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for the world's third biggest dam
Al Jazeera | Altamira, Brazil – Drive about 90 minutes outside this sultry Brazilian Amazon town, and into the thicket of the jungle, and a surreal, other-worldly scene appears: A place where dozens of steel arms with giant claws from land excavators cut into the red earth, carving out deep holes.
Brazil Mega Dam Washes Residents Away
Al Jazeera | With an estimated cost of at least $14 billion, Brazil's Belo Monte Dam is leaving a large footprint - one that looks like it will stamp out local residents.
Protesters Strike Again At Brazil's "Pandora" Dam In Amazon
Forbes | Brazil's massive Belo Monte hydroelectric power project is arguably the most hated government project in the world. A group of fisherman and tribal members of the Xingu River Lives Movement rowed up and down the river on Wednesday to block construction workers from initial phase construction of the mega-dam.
Protestors Paralyze Belo Monte Dam Construction Works
New Construction Prompts Radical Intervention in Brazilian Amazon
Altamira, Brazil – Major construction on the Belo Monte Dam commenced on the Xingu River in a series of developments that took place during Brazil's New Year holidays, signaling a new phase in the Brazilian government's intentions to sidestep environmental legislation and human rights conventions to build the world's third largest...
Murder of Indigenous Child Provokes Reactions
Global Voices | The murder of an eight year old child from the Awa-Gwajá indigenous community, allegedly burnt alive [pt] by loggers in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, has caused outrage throughout the Internet, as well as disbelief by many in the face of such cruelty.
Vale: Worst Corporation in the World?
In our tradition of going after corporate crooks we invite you to help denounce Vale, the largest iron-ore mining company in the world and a prime force behind the disastrous Belo Monte Dam.
