Should Bolsonaro stand trial in the Hague eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 17 March 2023– The Amazon is no stranger to crises. And the Santo Antonio hospital in Boa Vista is no exception to the rule. It proves the point. For almost a decade its staff have been dealing with the fallout from the humanitarian collapse in neighbouring Venezuela,…
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Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/arts/design/brazil-yanomami-indigenous-andujar-photographs-shed.html?smid=em-share
Causing Death and Destruction and Desitution [ = extreme poverty ]Brazilians guilty of polluting Suriname ?? Amsterdam, 7 feb 2023 –Brazil’s Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara described the presence of illegal mining (known locally as “garimpo”) in the Yanomami Indigenous Land as destructive, Agencia Brasil reported Monday. The official spent Sunday night at the…
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Not only in Brazil but also in Suriname eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, February 1st, 2023– Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso has ordered an investigation by the Attorney General of the Republic, the Military Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, and the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police of Roraima into…
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Indigenous peoples in Danger Again eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 23 January 2023– Brazilian authorities declared a public health emergency in the territories where the native Yanomami community resides in Roraima and set up the Center of Operations for Emergencies in Public Health (COE – Yanomami) reporting directly to the Indigenous Health Department (SESAI). The committee will be…
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