Samenvatting: De president van Botswana, Ian Khama, heeft een jachtverbod ingesteld voor alle inwoners van Botswana, inclusief de Bosjesmannen die van de jacht leven – maar maakt een uitzondering voor de rijke toeristen die $8.000 betalen om op een giraf of zebra te schieten.

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Botswana’s President Khama has banned all hunting nationwide, even for Bushmen who hunt to feed their families – but an exception is being made for trophy hunters paying up to $8,000 to hunt giraffes and zebras.

Wealthy tourists are being invited to travel to Botswana to hunt big game on private ranches that have been exempted from the ban. But Bushmen from Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve, who have hunted with spears, bows and arrows for millennia, are being arrested, beaten and jailed for subsistence hunting.

The ban openly flouts Botswana’s landmark high court ruling in 2006, which upheld the Bushmen’s right to hunt on their ancestral land in the reserve.
In February President Khama was an honoured guest at a global anti-poaching conference in London, alongside Prince Charles and Prince William. The initiative resulted in the launch of Prince William’s United for Wildlife, drawing together seven big conservation organizations, including US-based Conservation International (CI). President Khama is a CI board member.

Although some communities affected by the 2014 ban have been offered food parcels, the reserve’s Bushmen have been left to starve, without any assistance from the government. Perversely, the Botswana Tourism Organization uses images of hunting Bushmen to attract tourists, especially big game hunters. Survival has called for a boycott of tourism to Botswana.

The depth of meaning that hunting has for tribal peoples like the Bushmen was explained by Bushman leader Roy Sesana: ‘I grew up as a hunter. All our boys and men were hunters. Hunting is going and talking to the animals. You don’t steal. You go and ask. You set a trap or go with bow and spear. It can take days. You track the antelope. He knows you are there, he knows he has to give you strength. But he runs and you have to run. As you run, you become like him. It can last hours and exhaust you both. You talk to him and look into his eyes. And then he knows he must give you his strength so your children can live’.

Survival’s Director Stephen Corry recently exposed how the conservation movement was founded by proponents of eugenics and other extreme-right theories; and that the first national parks were established on the lands of indigenous peoples after their eviction.

Stephen Corry said today, ‘Banning hunting in order to feed your family, but allowing the wealthy to hunt for trophies, plays to a lobby still rooted in racist beliefs about tribal peoples’ inferiority. The national park movement entailed the enforced eviction, often the complete destruction, of the tribes who lived off the land. Satellite imagery now proves that many tribal peoples are the world’s best conservationists, yet they’re still being destroyed. It’s not ‘conservation’; it’s just an old colonial crime, and it’s time the responsible organizations opposed it. Instead, they hide behind hollow policies, while continuing to support governments guilty of such inhuman behaviour.’

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Samenvatting: Survival International waarschuwt dat de geïsoleerde Amazone-indianen die recentelijk vanuit de lucht zijn gefotografeerd geheel aan hun lot worden overgelaten.

Reuters publiceerde vlak voor het weekend deze nieuwe luchtfoto’s van Indianen die met de speren paraat omhoog kijken naar het overvliegende vliegtuig.

Deze Indianen, die geen contact hebben met de buitenwereld, krijgen momenteel geen enkele bescherming tegen de drug-smokkelaars en illegale houtkappers die hun territorium onveilig maken. De wachtpost die de overheid in het gebied had neergezet om de Indianen en hun leefgebied te beschermen is in augustus 2011 geplunderd en is sindsdien onbemand.

De ongecontacteerde groep wordt bedreigd door de grootschalige illegale houtkap en de aanleg van een weg door het gebied.

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Survival International warned today that the uncontacted Amazon Indians recently photographed from the air have been abandoned to their fate after drug smugglers and illegal loggers overran a government post that had been monitoring the Indians’ territory.

The Indians, near the Xinane river in Brazil’s Acre State, are just over the border from Peru, where activists have long denounced the scale of illegal logging in isolated Indians’ territories.

The recently-photographed group also faces a serious threat from a road reportedly built into the area by the Acre state government – regional indigenous organizations have said this could devastate the uncontacted Indians on the Xinane River. Previous road-building projects in the Amazon have wiped out countless tribes.

In recent months several groups of uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians have been spotted along river banks on the Peruvian side of the border, prompting further speculation that illegal logging is pushing them out of their previous isolation.

The Brazilian and Peruvian authorities last week signed an agreement to improve cross-border coordination, in an attempt to safeguard the welfare of the many uncontacted Indians living in the border region.

Survival has previously released extraordinary aerial footage of some of these uncontacted Indians: Watch the video here.

Nixiwaka Yawanawá is an Amazon Indian working with Survival to speak out for indigenous rights. He is from the same region as the tribe recently photographed. He said today, ‘They are my brothers. It is exciting to see that they are living in the way they want. The government must protect their territory; otherwise, they could be destroyed and the government would be responsible.’

Survival Director Stephen Corry said, ‘The only thing that will ensure the survival of modern-day uncontacted tribes is for their land to be protected. They have the right to decide whether to make contact with outside society, rather than be destroyed at the hands of an invading society. It’s vital that Brazil and Peru work together to protect the land of uncontacted tribes. History shows that when these rights aren’t upheld, disease, death and destruction follow.’

Survival’s Research Director Fiona Watson, one of the world’s leading experts on uncontacted Amazon tribes, is available for interview.

Samenvatting: Het Braziliaanse staatsoliebedrijf Petrobas is begonnen met proefboringen in een van de meest afgelegen delen van het Amazone regenwoud. In dit gebied leven meerdere geïsoleerde indianenstammen, die hierdoor ernstig worden bedreigd.

Voor een stam als de Hi Merimã, bijvoorbeeld, kan dit soort activiteit in hun leefgebied fataal uitpakken. De stam heeft geen contact met de buitenwereld en is daardoor zeer kwetsbaar voor ziektes van buiten, die bij hen een vernietigende epidemie kunnen veroorzaken.

Met haar campagne The Dark side of Brazil wil Survival International de duistere kant van Brazilië bespreekbaar maken, juist nu de aandacht op Brazilië is gevestigd vanwege de WK. Vijf honderd jaar na de kolonisatie van Brazilië wordt de inheemse bevolking nog steeds uitgemoord voor hun land en de natuurlijke hulpbronnen die hun land rijk is. Nu zijn de regering en de grootgrondeigenaren de overgebleven inheemse gebieden nog verder aan het uitbuiten voor economisch gewin.
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Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has started exploring for oil and gas in one of the most isolated parts of the Amazon, endangering several isolated Indian tribes.

Local sources report that Petrobras has installed 15 barges with high-capacity generators, pipelines and mining machinery on the Tapauá River in Amazonas state. The exploration is taking place close to seven indigenous territories including the lands of the Suruwaha, Banawa, Deni and Paumari Indians.

Although Brazil’s constitution stipulates that indigenous people must be consulted about all projects that will affect their land, Petrobras has failed to consult the indigenous peoples in the area. FUNAI, the government’s Indian affairs department, was not informed about the exploration either, despite the fact some tribes in the area are very isolated and contacted relatively recently.

When asked about Petrobras’s recent exploration in the Tapauá River basin, Brazil’s National Oil Agency stated that ‘no exploration for oil and gas has been called for, or authorized, by this agency in that region.’

In a letter to Public Prosecutors, Brazilian experts emphasized the Indians’ right, enshrined in international law, to be consulted about this activity and warned, that ‘over 1,300 people could suffer irreversible impacts’. A Congresswoman and a Senator have raised the issue in government.

The exploration could prove fatal for the Hi Merimã, an uncontacted tribe living close to the exploration site. Uncontacted Indians are extremely vulnerable to any contact with outsiders as they have no immunity to common diseases.

In the 1970s and 1980s Petrobras explored for oil in the Javari Valley, home to the highest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world. Several uncontacted Indians, as well as FUNAI and Petrobras employees, died in conflicts sparked by the exploration activities.

Last year the indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley re-stated their opposition to any oil exploration on or near their lands. In a letter they warned that they do not want to see a repetition of the tragedy they suffered when Petrobras ‘destroyed our homes and gardens, blew up our lakes and streams polluting the springs and leading to the death of several Indians.’ They ’brought disease to our communities and malaria to the region, and brought an accumulation of equipment to our territory, damaging the flora and fauna’.

Survival International has written to Petrobras urging it to immediately halt its work in the area.

Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Brazil is ready and willing to sacrifice innocent Indian lives in its greedy scramble for profit. Its economic growth is coming at immense human cost: the lives and livelihoods of the country’s indigenous people. Make no mistake – when the lands of uncontacted Indians are invaded, disease, death and destruction inevitably follow. This is the dark side of Brazil.’

Note to editors:

- In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup, Survival International is highlighting ‘The dark side of Brazil’. Five hundred years after colonization, Brazilian Indians are still being killed for their lands and resources. Now the government and landowners plan to open up Indian territories for massive industrial projects.

- Download Survival’s letter to Petrobras (Pdf, xx MB)

- Download a letter by the Indians of the Javari Valley rejecting all oil exploration on or near their lands (Pdf, 3.9 MB) (In Portuguese)

- The Suruwaha whose territory is close to the exploration site have been under attack by fundamentalist missionaries for years. The missionaries falsely claim they regularly kill newborn babies. In 2012 the tribe became the target of an Australian Channel 7 TV report that called the Suruwaha a ‘suicide cult’ from the ‘Stone Age’; and the ‘worst human rights violators in the world’. Survival complained to Australia’s regulator ACMA, which ruled that the Channel was guilty of breaking its racism clause.

Samenvatting: Britse voetballer David Beckham heeft voorafgaand aan het WK 2014 een bezoek gebracht aan de Yanomami-indianen in het Braziliaanse regenwoud. Hij sprak daar met woordvoerder en sjamaan Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, die ook bekend staat als de ‘Dalai Lama van het Regenwoud’, over de problemen in het gebied, met name de illegale goudzoekers.
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David Beckham has visited the Yanomami tribe in Brazil in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup, and met their most prominent spokesperson Davi Kopenawa, known as the ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’.

While filming a TV program in Brazil, Beckham visited the Yanomami territory and asked Davi Kopenawa for permission to enter the reserve. Beckham and Davi talked about the problems that the Yanomami face, especially the illegal gold-mining on their land.

Dario Yawarioma Yanomami, son of Davi and a coordinator of the Yanomami association, Hutukara told Globo news that, ‘We liked David’s visit a lot because he was very interested in the problems in the Yanomami reserve. He saw that there are many threats to the environment and to our culture. He showed he was concerned about the Yanomami people.’

Davi Kopenawa is the first-ever Yanomami shaman to have published a book. ‘The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman’, written in collaboration with anthropologist and friend Bruce Albert, is a unique account of his life story.

In a review published last weekend in the US journal Truthout, Survival International’s Director Stephen Corry states that Davi Kopenawa’s book ‘deserves to become one of the most important books of our time.’

In his review Corry highlights the ‘diametric opposition’ between the Yanomami’s worldview and ‘trade and profit, which have become our measure of “progress”.’ Corry concludes that Davi’s message is clear: ‘He wants us to know that we are destroying the world with our insatiable hunger for more possessions [and] if we destroy the Yanomami, we destroy ourselves.’

Audiences in California (USA) will have a rare opportunity to meet Davi Kopenawa and listen to his message to the world during his upcoming visit to California in April 2014.

Watch Davi talk about his book ‘The Falling Sky’ and read excerpts here.

Davi will arrive in San Francisco on April 22 – World Earth Day – celebrated around the world by millions of people to demonstrate their support for environmental protection. Ahead of Earth Day Davi offers a surprising revelation, ‘We shamans . . . are protecting ‘nature’ as a whole. We defend the forest’s trees, hills, mountains, and rivers; its fish, game, spirits, and human inhabitants. We even defend the land of the white people.’ He warns the world that resource-consuming behavior is destroying the systems upon which all life depends, and that the world will suffer if the rainforest continues to be destroyed.

Many studies have backed up Davi’s claim that tribal people are the best conservationists. Long before the word ‘conservation’ was coined, tribal peoples had developed highly effective measures for maintaining the richness of their land and where they have been allowed to continue living on their lands, forest cover and biodiversity is often much higher than in other kinds of protected areas.

Note to editors:

- High-resolution pictures are available for download here and here. (© Nenzinho Soares)

- Davi Kopenawa will be available for press interviews during his visit to the USA, please get in touch with Kayla Wieche for more information

- See here for details of Davi’s schedule and sign up for updates.

- Survival has supported the Yanomami for decades and led the international campaign for the demarcation of the Yanomami territory, along with the Brazilian NGO Pro Yanomami Commission (CCPY). The ‘Yanomami Park’ was created in 1992 but the Yanomami territory continues to be invaded by illegal miners.

Samenvatting: In Brazilië hebben Guarani-indianen van de Pyelito Kuê gemeenschap een klein deel van hun voorouderlijk land weten terug te winnen. De veeboer die de Indianen had uitgezet en hun huizen had dichtgetimmerd werd gedwongen te vertrekken.
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A Guarani community in Brazil has managed to return to a small part of its ancestral land, forcing out the rancher who had taken over their land and blockaded their houses.

Around 200 Guarani are currently living on this part of their territory for the first time since it was stolen to make way for vast soya plantations. The Indians were dumped in appalling conditions in overcrowded reserves, and later on a tiny plot of land, trapped between a river and a sea of soya. Their plight had been labelled a ‘silent genocide’ by journalists.

One Guarani man of Pyelito Kuê told Survival, ’We are very happy. We have been fighting for our land, because it is ours. My grandfather is buried here. We have been threatened by the ranchers but we are not giving up; we will stay strong because we need this land.’

Early last year, the Guarani celebrated a breakthrough moment when the government recognized this territory as Guarani land, and moved forward with its protection as an indigenous territory.

The Guarani have reported that they are living much healthier lives since their return to this land, but that ranchers’ gunmen are continuing to threaten them, firing shots in their direction. The Indians have suffered a series of brutal attacks in recent years.

Brazil is legally obliged to map out all Guarani land but severe delays in this process have forced the Indians to endure malnutrition, alcoholism, violence, assassinations, and the highest suicide rate in the world.

The Indians and Survival are calling for Pyelito Kuê territory to be fully demarcated for the community’s exclusive use. 

Survival has launched a new campaign, ‘The Dark Side of Brazil’, to highlight the plight of the Guarani and other persecuted tribes in the run-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Samenvatting: Mensenrechtenorganisatie Survival International reikt elk jaar op 21 maart, de Internationale Dag voor de Uitbanning van Rassendiscriminatie, een prijs uit voor de meest racistische uitspraak van het jaar.

Dit jaar gaat onze prijs naar het Braziliaans congreslid Luis Carlos Heinz, vanwege zijn racistische uitlatingen over Indianen, homoseksuelen en mensen met een donkere huidskleur.

Deputy Heinze, de president van de Landbouwcommissie van de Kamer van Afgevaardigden, zei afgelopen november dat ‘de regering … in bed ligt met de zwarten, de Indianen, de homo’s, de lesbiennes, al die nietsnutten. Daar worden ze beschermd en ze controleren ze de regering.’
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A prominent Brazilian congressman has received Survival International’s ‘Racist of the Year’ award on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.

During a public meeting last November, Deputy Luis Carlos Heinze made deeply offensive remarks against Brazilian Indians, homosexuals and black people. Another congressman, Deputy Alceu Moreira, called for the eviction of tribal people attempting to reoccupy their ancestral lands.

Deputy Heinze, the President of the Chamber of Deputies’ Agriculture Commission, said that ‘the government … is in bed with the blacks, the Indians, the gays, the lesbians, all the losers. That’s where they’re being protected and they are controlling the government.’

During the same meeting Deputy Alceu Moreira called on Brazilian ranchers to ‘dress like warriors and don’t let a conman like this [apparently referring to the Indians’ supporters in general] take one step on your property. […] get together and form big crowds and evict [the Indians and the blacks] however is necessary!’

Watch a video of their speeches.

The Deputies are part of Brazil’s powerful anti-indigenous farming lobby, which is pressurizing the government to pass a series of controversial laws that would drastically weaken Indians’ control over their lands.

APIB, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, described this in a letter to Brazil’s Minister of Justice, as ‘a deadly campaign of discrimination, racism and extermination of indigenous peoples’.

The changes would be disastrous for Brazilian tribes such as the Guarani, who have already lost most of their land to cattle ranchers and sugar cane plantations. The tribe faces high levels of violence at the hands of powerful landowners, who frequently employ gunmen to evict the Guarani from their land and assassinate Guarani leaders.

A Guarani man told Survival, ‘The gunmen are threatening us and they want to kill us. They want to finish us off.’

US food giant Bunge, which buys sugar cane from land stolen from the Guarani, has reportedly been funding Deputy Heinze’s electoral campaigns.

Survival’s racism award has previously been awarded to the Peruvian newspaper Correo for calling indigenous Peruvians ‘savages’ and ‘primitive’, and the Paraguayan newspaper La Nación for comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer, and calling them ‘filthy’.

Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian who joined Survival in 2013 to speak out for indigenous rights, said, ‘For over 500 years, the Indians of Brazil have suffered racism, prejudice and violence at the hands of people who want to see our extinction. But we are still here, we are the protectors of the forest and we demand respect. It makes me sad and angry to hear these politicians’ hateful and racist comments. With the World Cup only a few months away, the world needs to see this side of Brazil too.’

Notes to editors:

- See Survival’s report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which outlines the Guarani’s shocking situation.

- In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup, Survival International is highlighting ‘The dark side of Brazil’. Click here to find out more about the situation of Brazilian Indians and the government’s attacks on their rights to their land.

Vanaf morgen krijgen Nederlanders en Belgen de gelegenheid de FIFA wereldbeker van dichtbij te bezichtigen. De voetbaltrofee komt 19 en 20 maart naar Amsterdam en doet op 21 maart Brussel aan.

Als onderdeel van de World Cup-campagne van Coca-Cola maakt de beker een wereldtoer, waarbij 88 landen worden bezocht. De tour begon en eindigt in Brazilië, gastland voor het WK. Maar er is ook een duistere kant aan Brazilië.

Survival International maakte een overzicht van de schokkende feiten achter de WK en hoofdsponsor Coca-Cola. Lees:The Dark Side of Brazil.
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Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian from Brazil, greeted the World Cup trophy on its arrival in London with a T-shirt saying ‘BRAZIL: STOP DESTROYING INDIANS’. Sporting his tribe’s headdress and facial decorations, Nixiwaka drew attention to Brazil’s attacks on the rights of its indigenous population.

Coca-Cola and FIFA prevented Nixiwaka from displaying the full message on his T-Shirt while standing next to the trophy.

In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup in June 2014, Nixiwaka and Survival International are highlighting that five hundred years after colonization, Brazilian Indians are still being killed for their lands and resources. While Brazil is presenting itself as a multi-cultural democracy and claims to host a World Cup ‘for everyone’, the government and landowners plan to open up Indian territories for massive industrial projects.

A proposed constitutional amendment would give Brazil’s Congress – heavily influenced by the anti-indigenous farming lobby – a say in the demarcation of indigenous lands. This would mean further delays and obstacles to the protection of the Indians’ ancestral land.

Another controversial bill would open up indigenous territories for mining, dams, army bases and other industrial projects. Indians across the country are vociferously protesting against these plans.

The changes would be disastrous for uncontacted Indians living in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The demarcation and protection of their land is vital for their survival as they have no immunity to diseases transmitted by outsiders and any form of contact threatens to drive them to extinction. Many of the uncontacted Indians are facing brutal attacks by illegal loggers and miners who invade their territories.

Nixiwaka said, ‘In 2014 the world’s eyes are on Brazil for the FIFA World Cup – a good opportunity for us to show the international community the struggle for our lands. We need everyone’s support to save our rainforest; we depend on our forest for our survival. I hope that the Brazilian government will take the lead in respecting indigenous rights to lands, and others will follow suit.’ 

Brazilian tribes such as the Guarani have been waiting for the demarcation of their land for many years. Having lost most of their ancestral land to cattle ranchers and sugar cane plantations, they are forced to live in dangerous and squalid conditions on road-sides or in overcrowded reserves. They face malnutrition, poor health and alcoholism and their leaders are frequently targeted and killed by ranchers’ gunmen.

Coca-Cola, the promoter of the trophy tour and one of the biggest sponsors of the World Cup, has recently been dragged into the Guarani’s land struggle, as a report revealed that it is sourcing sugar from US food giant Bunge – which in turn buys sugar cane from farmers who have taken over Guarani land.

A Guarani spokesman told Survival International, ‘Coca-Cola must stop buying sugar from Bunge. While these companies profit, we are forced to endure hunger, misery, and killings’.

Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Brazil is frequently celebrated as an economic success story – never more so than in the run-up to the World Cup. But it’s only fair to acknowledge that its economic growth is incurring an immense human cost: the death of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people over the last century, and the annihilation of entire tribes. It’s time to recognize the dark side of Brazil.’

Notes to editors:

- Nixiwaka Yawanawá is available for interview.

- In the run up to the FIFA World Cup, Survival International is highlighting ‘The dark side of Brazil’. Click here to find out more about the situation of Brazilian Indians and the government’s attacks on their rights to their land.

Samenvatting: Parijs: De Braziliaanse inheemse leider Sonia Guajajara leidde ter gelegenheid van de Internationale Dag van Actie voor Rivieren een demonstratie tegen de bouw van megadammen in de Amazone.
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Brazilian Indian Sonia Guajajara led a protest in Paris today – the International Day of Action for Rivers – calling for a halt to the construction of mega-dams in the Amazon.

Sonia led over a hundred protestors to the offices of French companies GDF Suez, EDF and Alstom, which are involved in the construction of several destructive dams.

She led the group in forming ‘human waves’ which crashed into the office buildings to represent the destruction of large Amazonian dams by the global anti-dam movement. The group then carried its messages to the River Seine. Survival supporters carried placards reading ‘STOP AMAZON DAMS’.

Sonia, of the Guajajara tribe in the north-eastern Amazon, is the national coordinator of the Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB), a network of indigenous organizations in Brazil.

She said, ’Brazil’s reputation is at stake… We are here to bring visibility to the unacceptable prejudice and discrimination suffered by indigenous peoples and to demand that it stops’.

Despite fierce opposition, Brazil is forging ahead with its construction of the massive Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River, and the Madeira and Tapajós river dams, all in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Thousands of Indians have been protesting against these projects, warning that they are devastating the forest and putting at risk the lives of the thousands of Indians who live there.

Indian leader Megaron Kayapó said, ‘Which rivers will we have for fishing? The Xingu is our river, our supermarket… We live by hunting, fishing, and planting… We have always been against it (Belo Monte), and we will always be against it’.

The uncontacted Indians living near the dam construction sites could be completely wiped out by outside diseases brought in by the thousands of migrants being drawn to the areas.

On Tuesday, Sonia denounced Brazil’s abuse of indigenous rights at the United Nations in Geneva, including the government and landowners’ aims to weaken indigenous rights and open up indigenous territories for massive industrial projects.

Director of Survival France, Jean-Patrick Razon, said today, ’Sonia’s demands in Paris today, just three months before the World Cup kicks off, act as another wake-up call to the human rights scandal inflicted on the Indians by these French companies, and by the Brazilian state. When will they listen and put a stop to this once and for all?’

Sonia’s visit to Europe was coordinated by Amazon Watch, France Libertés and Planète Amazone.

Read Survival’s report highlighting the hugely negative impacts of large dams on indigenous peoples worldwide.