Brazil
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Under a new law in Brazil, indigenous people have no right to claim their ancestral land from which they had forcedly been displaced before October 1988.Despite President Lula's objection, the new law came into force on December 28, the Guardian repo...
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Brazil's president announced on Friday that he will partially veto a bill restricting Indigenous groups' claims to ancestral lands, overriding Congress's recent approval of the legislation.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will veto a core stipulat...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host a regional summit next week with planetary stakes, as leaders of the countries that share the Amazon seek a roadmap to save the world's biggest rainforest.The meeting of the eight-nation Amazon...
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The leaders of 54 Indigenous communities in Brazil called on Friday for the government to take a concrete stance on the demarcation of their ancestral lands before a key Supreme Court ruling on the issue.The Supreme Court's so-called "trial of the ce...
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By AFPGoogle launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union, Brazil and a dozen other countries on Thursday and unveiled new features as it expands access to its answer to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.The US tech giant unveiled Bard in February but d...
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In a remote pocket of the Brazilian Amazon under siege from illegal fishermen, poachers, loggers and drug traffickers, Indigenous people have taken it upon themselves to defend the land and its resources.With bows, arrows and spears, young men of the...
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A Supreme Court judge in Brazil ordered an investigation Friday of Google and Telegram over what he called the tech companies' "abusive campaign" against a controversial bill seeking to stem disinformation online.Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered f...
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Her grandfather defended native lands in the Brazilian Amazon with bows and arrows. Today, the weapon of choice for Txai Surui and many young Indigenous activists like her is technology.The 26-year-old Brazilian is one of the stars of Web Summit Rio,...
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There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untou...
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There has been noticeably less deforestation in areas of Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where indigenous peoples have secure land rights than in comparable regions where land tenure is weak or nonexistent.PNAS Nexus published a paper revealing t...
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In a hospital in Brazil's Amazon, half a dozen Yanomami children are dozing in blue hammocks.Some are suffering from pneumonia, others from malaria. Some even have snake bites. All of them are underfed.Cases of malnutrition and malaria in the region...
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By AFPPolice in Brazil have strong evidence that an alleged drug trafficker ordered the murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous activist in the Amazon last June, a police chief said on Monday.Police believe Ruben da Silva Villar, who uses t...
