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American religious organizations map indigenous peoples in Brazil and do not...
Foreign missionaries working in Brazil are targeting isolated people living in the Amazon Region (Photo: Gleilson Miranda/Government of Acre) “God allow them to find their lost children,” says one of...
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New study by RB will inform international campaign for ethical eating
Repórter Brasil’s publication “From Brazilian Farms to European Tables – Socio-Environmental Impacts and Labor Violations in Brazil-EU Agricultural Supply Chains (Beef, Orange, Coffee and Cocoa)” is a...
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Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural...
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, he ushered in a climate of hostility toward rural activists — Indigenous peoples, environmentalists, advocates for landless...
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Fraud in authorization for rural activity in the Amazon erases “dirty record”...
A large property in the Brazilian Amazon that had been repeatedly notified for environmental violations due to illegal deforestation and fires in recent years used an official document to hide...
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Banks inject more than US$ 6 million in the meatpacking companies that most...
Brazilian banks Itaú, BNDES, Banco do Brasil and Safra financed at least four of the meatpacking companies that contributed most to illegal deforestation in the Amazon. Between 2013 and 2019, the four...
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“Consortia of deception” enable destruction in a conservation unit where...
The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA), in southern Pará state, appears at the top of several lists of conservation units (CUs) with the highest rates of deforestation and fires not...
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Half of the state representatives who approved the reduction of protected...
To benefit ranchers, Rondônia state representatives passed a law that decimates two reserve areas around Porto Velho, the state’s capital. The environmental damage, if the bill is sanctioned by the...
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Lawless skies are controlled by miners
The scene does not buzz with activity like the human ant-farms that were the hallmark of mining at Serra Pelada, in Pará. At the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima, illegal mining destroys the Amazon...
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R$ 200,000: that’s how much a pilot working for miners makes a week
It is not just the sale of gold illegally mined from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory that fills the pockets of those associated to gold mines. Pilots and aircraft owners working in the area have...
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‘I’ll buy everything’: Yanomami gold is freely sold at Rua do Ouro
In the capital city of Roraima, Boa Vista, part of the gold illegally extracted from TI Yanomami circulates freely among dozens of jewelry stores. Rua do Ouro is a traditional center for these small...
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HStern, Ourominas and D’Gold: major buyers of illegal gold from TI Yanomami
As he boarded a commercial bus in Boa Vista, Roraima, heading for Manaus, Amazonas, Raimundo had no idea that he was being awaited by Federal Police agents at the bus station. When he reached his...
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PCC approaches miners to launder money
In 2021, the spiral of violence that marks illegal mining activities in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY) reached new highs. On May 10, the Palimiu village, on the banks of the Uraricoera River, was...
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Romero Jucá, the ‘worst enemy’ of the Yanomami people
Romero Jucá (MDB) has been keeping a low profile. He still lives in Brasilia but has been leading a discreet life since he was not re-elected to the Senate in 2018. Since then, he has rarely responded...
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‘Bolsonaro’s mining bill will turn into a mess’, says the living memory of...
Aviator and miner José Altino Machado, now 79 years old, was known in the country as the person responsible for the three largest invasions by miners in the regions of Xitei and Surucucu at the...
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Event in August will address supply chain legislation
Governments around the world are demanding more corporate governance in line with obligations and commitments to protect and promote human rights in all their activities and operations. It is the...
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Labour inspectors fine leader of cooperative that supplies coffee to...
Nineteen coffee harvest workers – who had migrated from Vale do Jequitinhonha, one of the poorest areas in the state of Minas Gerais – had almost one third of their wages illegally deducted by the...
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How backhoe makers encourage illegal mining in the Amazon
A raft slides on the waters of a river in a remote area of the Amazon, carrying a Hyundai hydraulic excavator that weighs at least 15 tons into the forest. The scene was recorded by indigenous people...
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BNDES finances meatpacking companies that source from deforested farms and...
Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is financing meatpacking companies that slaughter animals raised on farms that have been illegally deforested, interdicted by Ibama,...
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With revenues of R$ 1.4 billion, the largest exporter of gold from wildcat...
A simple internet search quickly shows the biggest exporters of soy, coffee, cattle or iron ore. But there is a strange silence when it comes to gold: presidents of institutions in the sector say they...
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In the midst of the pandemic, Cutrale fires pregnant employees and suspends...
End of meal vouchers and paid commuting hours, lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), illegal searches, and pregnant women fired: working conditions among seasonal harvest employees at Cutrale –...
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