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Our Work Protecting the Amazon and our climate by supporting Indigenous peoples Since 1996, Amazon Watch has protected the rainforest and advanced the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. Our work is focused on three main Read more…
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Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil Wikipedia: A Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB) é uma associação nacional de entidades que representam os povos indígenas do Brasil. A APIB nasceu durante o Acampamento Terra Livre de 2005, num momento em que as lideranças indígenas regionais começavam a se tornar notórias nacionalmente mas se encontravam ainda bastante dispersas e isoladas.[1] Os propósitos declarados na fundação eram:[2] Read more…
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Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira Wikipedia: A Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira, foi criada em uma reunião de líderes indígenas em abril de 1989. História É a maior organização indígena do Brasil, tem 75 organizações membros dos nove Estados da Amazônia Brasileira (Amazonas, Acre, Amapá, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima e Tocantins); são associações locais, federações regionais, organizações de mulheres, professores e estudantes indígenas. Juntas, estas comunidades somam aproximadamente Read more…
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FORESTS Forests are as essential to our survival as they are to the survival of our planet. Rainforests are home to an unfathomable breadth of biodiversity — wildlife found nowhere else on Earth — from jaguars and gorillas to elephants and orangutans. They make the air we breathe and the water we drink. They provide livelihoods, food, shelter, and medicine for millions Read more…
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“I have interviewed thousands of victims of human rights abuses and listened to their stories of their suffering and their loss. More and more, I have come to realize that when these people describe the abuses to me, they are also talking about problems that are connected to the environment: the boys and girls who are ordered at gunpoint to Read more…
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Wikipedia: Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom focused on human rights. The organization says it has more than seven million members and supporters around the world.[1] The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for “a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Read more…