July 11, 2020

Already fighting for their lands and lives, Indigenous communities in Brazil slammed by COVID-19

Author: Emilee Gilpin

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Take a country where Indigenous leaders are killed for defending their lives and lands, where constitutionally protected rights are often violated for the sake of development and mining, and where people are left in precarious conditions due to unrecognized territories and a far-right president who publicly supports the expansion of mining and agribusiness at whatev