This year’s U.N. climate conference, COP28, featured much-improved Indigenous representation from last year’s event. Yet despite intensive lobbying by the more than 300 delegates, most Indigenous and civil society leaders were left disappointed at the end of the summit in Dubai. “You see Indigenous leaders and Indigenous youth in every corner of the venue … […]
The funeral of Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples who was killed alongside British journalist Dom Phillips during a reporting trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, was held in his home state Pernambuco last week. Pereira and Phillps were murdered in the Javari Valley, close to Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia, sparking outrage and condemnation around the world, as the case is the most recent chapter of a long and violent conflict in the region. As the BBC reported, the area in which they were traveling has become known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities. "It is also known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents, and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr. Phillips and Mr. Pereira were documenting."