Indigenous people from Brazil and Colombia sued retailer Casino in a French court on Wednesday over the selling of beef linked to land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon, campaigners involved in the lawsuit said.
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SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Merremii Karao was invited to a clinic in the nearby town of Canindé in mid-January to receive her COVID-19 vaccine, other members of her indigenous community in northeast Brazil’s Ceará state were hopeful they would soon be immunized too.
But while Merremii was photographed receiving her injection, with images distributed to the media, no other member of the Karao Jaguaribaras people in her village of Feijao has had the vaccine, said Gleidison Karao, a leader of the community.
“They used the image of (Merremii) to say everything was going well, but they haven’t really started the vaccination here,” he told Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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