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    Indigenous Rights Under Siege: Brazil’s New Battle for the Amazon and Cultural Survival

    Despite a Supreme Court victory, new legislative and judicial attacks threaten the future of Indigenous lands and environmental protection

    As Brazil stands at a crossroads, the international community's support and vigilance are crucial in ensuring that Indigenous rights are upheld and the Amazon rainforest is preserved for future generations​.

    July 16, 2024
    6,866 views
    6 min read

    Coming Together to Demand the Amazon as a No-Go Zone at FOSPA

    Amazon Watch participation in the 11th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum strengthened a regional coalition for an Amazon free of mining

    "Their money will run out, but our territory will remain here. We're not going to sell ourselves or our land to be destroyed."

    July 2, 2024
    7,424 views
    4 min read

    Indigenous Women Denounce Violence and Call for Gender Justice in the Peruvian Amazon

    Peruvian authorities initially tried to minimize revelations of violence and sexual abuse at Indigenous public schools, but activists and civil society are not letting them cover it up

    In recent weeks, the Awajún and Wampís Women's Council made a shocking public denunciation of 524 cases of rape and abuse of children who attended public schools since 2010. 

    June 27, 2024
    10,568 views
    5 min read

    Recent Reports

    2022-2023 Annual Report

    For 26 years, Amazon Watch has worked in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to advance their territorial land rights in the Amazon Basin, defending this extraordinary biome from a range of threats.

    July 2024
    1,689 views
    3 min read

    Amazon Underworld

    Criminal Economies in the World's Largest Rainforest

    This report shows how criminal organizations and armed groups have expanded their presence, increased their political control, and diversified their economies in the Amazon with disastrous impacts on Indigenous peoples.

    November 2023
    6,208 views
    2 min read

    News on Indigenous Rights, the Amazon, and Our Global Climate Crisis

    Investor Eye on the Amazon

    Updates for shareholders and activists concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

    The companies and banks behind Amazon destruction are feeling the heat as this year’s season of shareholder meetings comes to a close.

    June 2024
    6,291 views
    1 min read

    In 2024, Anti-Chevron Day Has Become Anti-Chevron Month

    With too many human rights violations to recognize in just one day, Chevron faces ever-growing opposition on the eve of its annual meeting

    On any list of worst corporate actors concerning human rights, the environment, accountability, transparency, and governance, Chevron consistently ranks at or near the top.

    May 23, 2024
    9,387 views
    5 min read

    Wall Street Banks Fund the Destruction of Our Indigenous Land

    Newsweek | As representatives of communities who pay the highest costs of this toxic business, Indigenous Peoples demand banks prohibit new financing of Petroperú, and prevent its clients from pursuing new oil expansion.

    May 20, 2024
    4,607 views
    4 min read

    Oil Debt: Financing Amazon Destruction

    A new documentary highlights the efforts of the Achuar, Wampís, and Chapra nations from the Peruvian Amazon against state-run oil company Petroperú and its financiers

    The 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report is the most comprehensive analysis of the financial institutions backing the fossil fuel industry and the policies of the world’s 60 largest banks enabling this financing.

    May 15, 2024
    8,569 views
    2 min read

    Amazon Watch at UNPFII: Safeguarding the Right to Self-determination

    At the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Amazon Watch amplified Indigenous voices of strong female leaders underscoring the urgency of safeguarding the right to self-determination on the path to COP30

    Achieving Indigenous autonomies and territorial governance, where self-determination is exercised, requires dismantling the mandates imposed by colonial and extractivist states and transforming them based on indigenous worldviews of harmony and collectivity.

    May 14, 2024
    4,555 views
    4 min read

    Unmasking the Environmental and Human Rights Threats of Canadian Corporations

    Despite its promises, Canada rejects key recommendations on the framework of the Universal Periodic Review and remains a threat to human rights and the environment

    Contrary to upholding Indigenous rights, Canada rejected crucial recommendations regarding the regulation of its companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    May 6, 2024
    5,463 views
    5 min read

    Ecuadorians Vote to Strengthen Security Measures and Reject Neoliberal Economic Reforms in Latest Referendum

    Ballot measures proposing a return to international arbitration mechanisms and that weaken labor laws lose by wide margin

    Ecuadorian voters sent a clear message to President Daniel Noboa on Sunday, in the country’s second referendum vote in under a year: they want security, but they saw through his attempt to sneak through right-wing economic reforms.

    April 24, 2024
    3,582 views
    5 min read

    Mounting Resistance to the Ferrogrão Railway in the Brazilian Amazon

    An unprecedented popular alliance is fighting to prevent the progress of a disastrous Amazonian mega-project

    As the world turns its eyes to Brazil for next year’s critical COP30 climate summit, the future of the Amazon and its peoples stand at a dangerous crossroads as Brazilian agribusiness and global commodity traders attempt to drive a mega-railway through it.

    April 18, 2024
    6,215 views
    4 min read

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