When indigenous leader Jorge Ríos Pérez and three others were killed by illegal loggers in Peru in 2014, his eldest daughter Diana had to become the leader of the fight for justice for the murders and for the defense of antamiki (the Amazon forest).
Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores
Foreign Policy in Focus
Progressive groups are pushing a potential Biden administration to base its policies toward the region on non-intervention, cooperation, and mutual respect.
The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Brazil, yet President Bolsonaro has approved a new project to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups by an evangelical organization with a history of doing deadly harm to Indians.
Canada’s National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women found “substantial evidence” natural resource projects increase violence against Indigenous women and children and two-spirit individuals. Yet, British Columbia ignored this link.
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