Hay muchos lugares en el mundo donde los pueblos indígenas no tienen acceso a las necesidades y servicios básicos. En tales contextos, incluso la ayuda más pequeña puede marcar una gran diferencia para la vida de los miembros de la comunidad. Tal fue el caso de la aldea Itaparana, en el estado de Amazonas, Brasil, durante los primeros meses de la pandemia de COVID-19, cuando una subvención del Fondo Guardianes de la Tierra apoyó los esfuerzos de Colectivo Mura para construir una casa comunitaria que garantizara la protección básica de un hogar seguro para miembros de la comunidad.

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS Staff)

"We want peace in our territories," shouted Indigenous women marchers in Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia on September 7-11, 2021. 
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS Staff)
 

For the first time in history, Indigenous Peoples from Brazil are going directly to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, with their Indigenous lawyers to fight for their rights.
 

By Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS STAFF)
 

By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS STAFF)

In this text in which I make use of a third-person journalistic voice, of denunciation, of a witness, I also change to a first plural voice, because it is not only a people there in another country that is being attacked but my people, my, our relatives and partners in defending human rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples and partners in protecting the forest.
 

Sonia Guajajara. Photo: APIB

They will not silence you!

Dear Sonia,

Photo: "The Brazilian State is the main vector of the pandemic among Indigenous Peoples in Brazil." Image courtesy of Eloy Terena's Instagram account.

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (CS Consultant)
 

By  Edson Krenak Naknanuk (CS Consultant)
 

"The Amazon is dirty, our rivers and fish are contaminated, everyone is sick. We no longer feel safe in the forest, in our home.” -- Alessandra Munduruk, Munduruku Mother
 

The Yanomami, Munduruku, and Kayapo Peoples share how the Bolsonaro government is worsening their situation and threatening the forest and human rights in Brazil in this three part article series. Part one focuses on Yanomami Peoples. 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk

Displacement and human rights violations have become a tool to punish the Quilombola Peoples’ identity and reinforce structural racism and impoverishment. This article denounces the Brazilian State’s violations against Quilombola Peoples, known in English as Maroon Peoples, which are part of a wider strategy for demographic reengineering on Indigenous and Quilombola lands for attaining political and economic interests. 

By Laura R. Graham, Edson Krenak, and Linda Rabben