Click to expand Image Indigenous people demonstrate against acts of violence before the civil and military police stations in Tome-Acu, state of Para, Brazil. August 7, 2023. 2023 Andrea Carvalho/HRW Violence against Indigenous people in Brazil has marred the Amazon Summit, a high-level meeting of presidents of countries in the Amazon region aimed at improving protection of the Amazon rainforest. The violence is a stark reminder that there is no future for the Amazon without protecting the people living in, and dependent on, the rainforest. On August 7, I visited Tome-Ac, a town in Northeast Para, together with other organizations concerned with escalating conflicts involving Indigenous communities and palm oil companies. Three days before, a 19-year-old Tembe man had been shot and seriously injured by a private security guard reported to work for a company producing palm oil, Brasil BioFuels (BBF). A young man and two women had been shot earlier that day during a protest over the ear
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