When the Dutch government announced plans to buy out farms close to nature reserves and cut the country’s livestock herd by as much as one-third, farmers revolted, staging massive demonstrations and destabilizing politics in the Netherlands. A series of articles and a video break this down. In Brazil, members of São Paulo’s Jaraguá Guarani Indigenous […]
Over the past two years, there has been a 45% increase in attacks fueled by religious intolerance. According to specialists, this is related to the surge of evangelical fundamentalism
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The move comes after the killing of Candomblé priestess and quilombo leader Maria Bernadete Pacífico, a.k.a. Mãe Bernadete, killed last Thursday inside her home. Today, the state in Northeast Brazil has 94 human rights advocates under protection.
She was the leader of the quilombo Pitanga dos Palmares, a priestess of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, and the former Secretary for Racial Equality of Simões Filho, in Bahia state. Her community in Bahia is home to 289 families across 854 hectares.