The “Declaration of Belém” has emerged as the primary outcome of the Amazon Summit, an assembly of leaders from Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, held on August 8th and 9th in the Brazilian Amazon capital of Belém …
Peruvian oil company Petroperú is negotiating to finalize a long-term loan guarantee from the Italian export credit agency Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero (SACE) for up to $500 million for the Talara oil refinery in Peru. If the Italian agency …
Lima, Peru – Peruvian news outlet “La Encerrona” published yesterday, July 5, 2023, documents showing that Isabel Tafur, current president of Perupetro, the state company responsible for selecting oil block operators in Peru, worked on a project promoted …
UPDATE: In an interview given to the news agency Amazônia Real, published on June 8, Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari, who is the president of the Urihi Yanomami Association and the Yanomami Indigenous District Health Council (Condisi-Y), reported that …
Quito, Ecuador – Canada-based junior mining company Solaris Resources Inc. faces renewed opposition from Indigenous peoples to its flagship copper project in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in advance of the company’s Annual General Meeting, to be held Friday, June …
On June 7, 2023, Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes cast a pivotal vote against the Marco Temporal or “Time Limit” legal thesis. Advanced by the country’s agribusiness interests, the thesis would curtail the rights of Indigenous peoples to …
Today on the anniversary of the killing of Bruno Periera and Dom Phillips, Amazon Watch is in solidarity with the Indigenous communities of the Javari Valley and the family members remembering their tragic loss and celebrating their lives’ commitment to …
Today 62 civil society organizations and networks – whose members include over 370 groups across 85+ countries on six continents – have sent an open letter to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) highlighting that its final draft …
Brasília, Brazil – Today, in a move met with outrage, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved Bill 490/2007 by 283 votes to 155. The bill changes the formal titling and recognition of Indigenous land, known as the demarcation process, and permits water and …
Yesterday, May 24, 2023, a Brazilian congressional committee overwhelmingly approved by 15 votes to 3, draft legislation, known as Provisional Measure 1154, by Deputy Isnaldo Bulhões Jr. to slash the authority of the Ministries of Indigenous Peoples and …
Photos available here Climate activists and communities affected by oil and gas projects are continuing a sit-in at Citi’s headquarters in New York ahead of the bank’s annual shareholders’ meeting, where it faces tough resolutions on its funding of fossil …
Photo gallery here New York, NY —Today, Amazon Watch published Respecting Indigenous Rights: An Actionable Toolkit for Institutional Investors, an Indigenous-led guide for pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors on their …
Read the report here | Leer boletín en español This past February, a delegation of 11 Latin American civil society organizations from the Collective on Chinese Finance and Investment, Human Rights and Environment (CICDHA) and representatives of affected …
Photos for press use here Toronto, Canada – Amazon Watch released new research today, The Risks of Investing in Solaris Resources, that exposes the social, cultural, and human rights impacts related to Solaris Resources Inc.’s Ecuador mining operations, …
Descargar en español On February 26, in the afternoon, Eduardo Mendúa, father, community leader of the A’i Cofan nation, and secretary of international relations of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) was murdered. This crime …
The Brazilian government has initiated operations aimed at dismantling extensive illegal gold mining activities in the Amazon’s Yanomami Indigenous Land. The objective is to drive tens of thousands of illegal miners from the country’s largest Indigenous …
Lima, Peru – The Peruvian government provided the necessary authorization last week for Petroperú to enter into a licensing agreement to carry out drilling operations in Block 192, the biggest continental oil operation in Perú and one with decades of …
São Paulo, Brazil – Two youths, Nawir Brito de Jesus, 17, and Samuel Cristiano do Amor Divino, 25, of Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó people, were brutally murdered on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, in the municipality of Itabela, in southern Bahia state. The …
