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AFP via Getty Images
3 December 2020
Global
Por Internation Land Coalition 
 
Estudo revela como as políticas neoliberais criam um campo de ''desertos verdes'': sem trabalho, devastador e monótono. Oligarquia rural, agronegócio e fundos especulativos unem-se, controlam terras e são cada vez mais hostis à democracia
 
Five mega-trends affecting forests will have profound impacts on local communities
15 December 2020
China
Global

We need to understand the consequences of technology, migration, climate shifts, infrastructure and a growing middle class on forest-dependent people

The fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement offers a moment to reflect on progress towards global climate goals. When it comes to protecting the world’s forests, which are essential to global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, there has been little – if any – progress.

Cejil
10 December 2020
Authors: 
CALPI Nicaragua
Latin America and the Caribbean
Central America
Nicaragua

Líderes e autoridades indígenas informaram ao CALPI sobre o homicídio atroz perpetrado com faca (facão) por um colono não indígena contra o indígena Mayangna Michael López Rivera, de 18 anos (q.e.p.d.); O assassinato a sangue frio, segundo duas testemunhas, foi perpetrado às 14h do dia 6 de dezembro de 2020 na Comunidade Nawahwas, Território Mayangna Sauni Bu, na Reserva da Biosfera de Bosawás.

Reports & Research
October 2020
India

India is currently among the most affected countries by COVID19, recording over 6 million cases, by September 30 2020. The pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalisedcommunities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress.

Think tank decries global push to privatize land
27 September 2020
Brazil
Myanmar
Sri Lanka
Ukraine
Papua New Guinea
Global

One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain irrespective of its consequences for the environment and the larger community, especially the poor majority.

1 June 2020
Cameroon
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Brazil
Indonesia

This special bulletin wants to pay tribute to the forest communities and peasant families around the world who despite all odds and difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic – including the movement restrictions imposed by governments and the corporate and elite profit-seeking abuses -, have still managed to practice solidarity:

Indonesia inches forward on community forest goal, hobbled by pandemic
6 August 2020
Indonesia

JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia has cut back its planned transfer of state forests to local communities this year by half - an area twice the size of Los Angeles - because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.


EPA/Joedson Alves
4 July 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
Os garimpeiros têm sido o principal veículo da pandemia entre os Yanomami. Os índios têm uma grande sensibilidade imunológica daí que a covid-19 na população indígena tenha um elevado risco de mortalidade.
 
Fonte: Midia India
13 June 2020

Location

Amazônia
Brazil
BR
South America
Brazil
Diálogo entre jovens do Xingu. Os e as participantes realizaram narrativas sobre sua resistência num momento extremamente hostil, com a pandemia se espalhando pela floresta, as lideranças morrendo e a grilagem avançando com suas motosserras e sua pistolagem. Daniela Silva, negra, da juventude do Xingu, é uma voz da periferia de Altamira.
2 June 2020

Location

online
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Latin America and the Caribbean

Martes 2 de junio a hrs. 12.00 (medio día de Nueva York). Se entregarán Certificados. El Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe (FILAC), junto al Foro Indígena de Abya Yala (FIAY) invitan a participar del Seminario Virtual “Experiencias de Monitoreo en Territorios Indígenas en Tiempos de Pandemia”, que tendrá lugar el próximo martes 2 de junio a hrs.

Organizers: 
Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y El Caribe
Foto: Dekaro / iStock
12 May 2020
South America
Brazil
Governo ignora dados do Deter, elabora pacote de ações para regularizar invasões de terras públicas e pode colocar MP da Grilagem em votação no Congresso
 

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