Rio de Janeiro, Nov 29 (EFE) – A Brazilian jury has sentenced a security guard to 16 years in prison for the murder in 2005 of a Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous man, in an unprecedented decision in Mato Grosso do Sul, a region mired in conflict between landowners and Indigenous people, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. João …
Although there are different Guarani sub-groups, all share a religion which emphasises land above all. Land is the origin of all life, and is the gift of the 'great father', Ñande Ru.
20 years ago, Survival's friend Marcos Veron was killed for the work that he did to ensure Guarani lands are not taken away by powerful interests. Decades later, this fight continues. We are immensely grateful for your past donations and are now calling on you once again to help stop this injustice. Please give whatever you can.
Two of the world’s largest agricultural producers are caught up in another scandal involving soy grown on illegally seized Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon. Both Cargill and Bunge source some of their soy products, including chicken feed and pet food, from land where Indigenous communities have suffered violence and displacement, according to a new […]