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End Slave Labor in Brazil
Every year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region.
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Slavery & forced labor
Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the ...
Regions: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador
Issues: Environment, Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons
Amazon SOS
A public service announcement about the need to protect the Amazon Rainforest and the indigenous communities who reside there, narrated by Martin Sheen.
Regions: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador
Issues: Environment, Indigenous peoples
Combatting Slavery In Brazil by Centro de Direitos Humanos
(for fast broadband Internet connections) Enslaved workers must escape from the slave-like conditions in which they work, despite death-threats and actual killings thugs hired by farm owners. ...
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Slavery & forced labor
Jazikidi Documentary
The Amazonian has the biggest biological, natural and hydrological resources and diversity of the world....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Environment, Indigenous peoples
Lydia Cacho on the dangers for journalists in Mexico
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, a Mexican journalist who has been persecuted for her work, spoke to NewCorrespondent.com on the current climate for journalists in Mexico.NewCorrespondent has become www.MexicoRep...
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Independence of the judiciary, Torture
Amazon: in the hands of a few
Farmers and politicians of the Brazilian municipality of Juína (Mato Grosso state) hinders Greenpeace activists, OPAN (Native Amazon Operation) members and european journalists's visit to the Enawene...
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Indigenous peoples
Children of the Amazon
In children of the Amazon, Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol travels to the heart of the Amazon in search of the indigenous children she photographed fifteen years ago....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Indigenous peoples, Sanitation, Water
Indigenous Children in Brazil
As Brazil launches an impressive initiative to help the country's most impoverished children, Nils Kastberg, the UNICEF Regional Director for the Americas and Carribean discusses the urgent needs of i...
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Indigenous peoples, Sanitation, Water
Clouds over Iguacu
Reported by Kris Kitto and Gabrielle Weiss