Nayana Fernandez
Brazilian activists accuse the authorities of double standards
While public transport activists condemn the violence used against the São Paulo military police colonel in a demonstration, they are also critical of the authorities’ failure to repudiate the violence used by the police against many demonstrators.
Munduruku people in the Amazon: “Police and armed forces surround our...
Indigenous villagers protesting against hydro-electric projects face escalating intimidation.
Belo Sun: Brazil’s Largest Gold Mine to be near site of...
The Brazilian government is about to approve the construction of the country’s largest ever gold mine at Volta Grande on the Xingu River, only a short distance from the site of the internationally criticised Belo Monte dam.
Uprising in Brazil: An Extraordinary Moment for Change
Will the protests be co-opted, or do they point the way to another, better society?
Brazil: Most serious riots since the dictatorship
Despite government denials, video and photos posted on the internet give clear evidence of the excessive use of violence by the police in São Paulo
Brazil: Indigenous struggle moves into a new gear
Indians have occupied the main construction sites for the huge Belo Monte dam and the government has responded by banning journalists.
Brazil: Indigenous Community Evicted as 2014’s World Cup Approaches
Despite widespread protests, a group of indians from different ethnic groups has been violently evicted from a building very close to the famous Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Aldeia Maracanã marks 513 years of Indigenous Evictions in Brazil
A few minutes from Maracanã stadium, urban Indigenous village struggles to save an historical building in danger as Brazil's World Cup approaches
Brazil chooses a racist homophobe to head its Human Rights Commission
Protests and demonstrations greet inexplicable appointment by Brazil's Congress
Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
