CRIME
One month after Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ encampment massacre, masterminds are still unidentified
The attack on the Olga Benário settlement killed two people and injured six
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50 YEARS
One of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants: Itaipu’s 50-year legacy in Brazil
Understand its impact, the Indigenous displacement it caused during the dictatorship, and more
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CRIME
Threats and killings increase in the area where agribusiness expands in the Amazon rainforest
A small farmer was shot dead due to a land dispute; the murderer is a big farmer who turned himself ...
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Land struggle
Bruno and Dom disappearance shows the danger of defending forests in Brazil; see other cases
The Amazon region, where the pair were reported missing, accounts for half of all land conflicts in the country
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LAND RIGHTS
Brazil: Killings in land conflicts up by 105% in four years
Activist was murdered this week as advocacy group prepared the launch of 2017 report
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Environment
Bolsonaro issues decree, experts warn that it encourages Amazon deforestation
Provisional decree could lead to escalation of land conflicts in the world’s biggest rain forest
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Amazon
What’s known about the murder of a social leader in northern Brazil
A coordinator of the Movement of People Affected by Dams, her husband, and a friend were killed last week
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