Petition for the Amazon: put people’s rights first
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Rainforest fires: put Amazonian people's rights first.
LAB partner Christian Aid is inviting the public to sign a new petition...
Brazil: Christmas hamper from the MST
Brazil's landless workers movement launches a Christmas hamper of products to promote organic food produced on small family farms
Amid the furore of Brazil’s 2018 elections: listening for the quiet...
One afternoon in October 2013, I arrived for an appointment at a public building in a small town in Brazil. Sitting opposite in the...
Migration & displacement – LAB Newsletter July 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries...
Brazil — upsurge in rural violence
Rural leaders are being targeted as a result of the government's failure to clamp down on impunity in the countryside.
Honduras: defending a mountain for 30 years
Pedro Pinto, 67, has spent over half his life defending the environment in the western region of Ocotepeque, Honduras. In November 2022, two of his vehicles were burned by an unknown party, he suspects that they were enemies of his work as an environmental defender.
Brazil — The Polluted Face of Carajás. 1
Piquiá de Baixo is dying from pollution from the production of pig iron at the giant Carajás mine
Brazil: another dam collapse imminent
Situated only 60km from Brumadinho, where a massive tailings dam collapse killed 270 workers and local residents on 25 January 2019, is the small...
Brazil: the flowers of sustainability
Extraordinary history of groups of former slaves, indigenous and others in the Cerrado who have forged a sustainable lifestyle from gathering sought-after sempre-vivas flowers and selling them, with enormous care to preserve the environment. Now rewarded by the UN's FAO, they face encroachments from mining and a national park
Brazil: map and timeline of rural massacres
As mentioned in Sue Branford & Thais Borges' article (Brazilian Amazon, 3 massaces in 12 days)Brazil's Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) has launched a ...