A radical change to how Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency functions has prompted alarm among activists, who say it effectively threatens to end the demarcation of Indigenous territories and set back policymaking. Decree 11,226, published Oct. 10 in the official government gazette, abolishes the regional committees of the National Indian Foundation, or Funai. These committees are […]
Since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, Bare and other indigenous lawyers have taken legal action repeatedly against the Funai indigenous affairs agency, accusing it of dismantling the protections it was tasked with upholding. "The very body that should protect us is against us," said Bare, who represents the largest umbrella group for Brazil's Amazon https://news.trust.org/item/20220209141114-o4u3i indigenous peoples, COIAB.
Since far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazilian president, critics say the Funai indigenous affairs agency has been dismantling the protections it is meant to uphold
Brazil s Poorest Faced With Choice to Starve to Death or Die of COVID
Vulnerable communities face food insecurity amid a surge in coronavirus cases in Brazil.
By Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Coronavirus is spreading and deaths are mounting but what most worries the leaders of Brazil s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on earth to feed people now government has pulled their main emergency aid.
Ivone Rocha is co-founder of Semeando Amor, a nonprofit that distributes basic staples to some of the very poorest people in Rio das Pedras, one of Rio de Janeiro s many favelas.