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The Philadelphia Tribune
April 28, 2018
BRASILIA, Brazil — As many as 2,000 of Brazil's indigenous people marched Thursday through the capital to protest what they say is an ... 30 years, has the Brazilian state opted for a relationship so completely adverse to the rights of indigenous people,” the Coalition of Indigenous People of Brazil said in aÃÂ ...
The Root
April 27, 2018
On that hot and muggy night on April 14 in Rio de Janeiro, more than 3,000 people gathered at the center of Rio to demand police action in the murder of Afro-Brazilian politician Marielle Franco and to mark the one-month anniversary of her death. Franco, known for her initiatives to help favela dwellers,ÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 27, 2018
Brasilia: Thousands of Brazil's indigenous people - many wearing feathered headdresses, traditional grass skirts and body paint - have marched through the capital to ... In front of the Justice Ministry, a handful of people lay down on a Brazilian flag and a sign that read, "End of the indigenous genocide.".
SBS
April 26, 2018
"The murder of indigenous people living on the front lines of environmental protection is unacceptable," said Mr Solheim. Brazil was the world's most dangerous nation for land rights activists in 2016, with about 50 people killed, according to London-based advocacy group Global Witness. The Pastoral LandÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 26, 2018
"We are here to demand our rights," Jailson dos Santos, leader of the Kariri-Xoko tribe from Bahia, northeastern Brazil, told Al Jazeera from the protest outside the attorney general's office on Wednesday. Indigenous people's right to their traditional lands is enshrined in Brazil's constitution. In practiceÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
April 25, 2018
Young Brazilian indigenous people attend a meeting at the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia. Approximately 2,500 indigenous people from different tribes are taking part in the Indigenous National Mobilization (MNI) week - a mobilization which seeks to tackle territorial rights'ÃÂ ...
Economic Times
February 22, 2018
From Mahatma Gandhi to Sachin Tendulkar, Indians who have their own foreign stamps. By. Maleeva Rebello ... Tendulkar got his Indian stamp only after he retired in 2013, but the other countries stamps were issued earlier. ... These include Brazil, Chad, France, Vatican City and Mongolia. In all theÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 21, 2018
Brazilian marines search the back pack of a student during surprise operation in Kelson's slum in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. ... Brazil's congress approved a decree to put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro's security forces on Tuesday as soldiers and police spread out throughout in the city to combatÃÂ ...
Variety
February 19, 2018
BERLIN — The Indigenous People from Brazil released a manifesto to coincide with the world premiere of Luiz Bolognesi's “Ex Shaman” at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Sub-headed “More Shamans, Less Intolerance,” the manifesto, included signatures from multiple indigenous people's organizationsÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
February 19, 2018
RIO DE JANERIO: Advice issued by black activists in Rio de Janeiro on "surviving" interactions with police -- including warning against carrying umbrellas that may be mistaken for guns -- went viral Monday. In an approximately three minute video, which was quickly shared more than 54,000 times onÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 14, 2018
Brazil will intensify negotiations in a bid to enter the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an official statement said. Brazil will strengthen its delegation to the OECD from March to meet the requirements for being a full member, Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. At presentÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 21, 2018
Mumbai: Indian workers are more confident of managing retirement in 2017 as compared to three years earlier. However ... According to Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey 2017, Indians continue to be the best placed in superannuation preparedness among respondents from 15 countries. The AegonÃÂ ...
Catholic Herald Online
January 21, 2018
Pope Francis called on indigenous people of the Amazon to work with missionaries and bishops to shape a Church with an “Amazonian and indigenous” ... Members of various indigenous peoples presented the Pope with gifts that reflected their culture, including a basket, painting, book and woven stole.
Saudi Gazette
January 20, 2018
India's Leander Paes (L) and Purav Raja celebrate a point against Britain's Jamie Murray and Brazil's Bruno Soares during their doubles match at the ... with a sensational reflex volley and then sealed victory over Briton Murray and Brazilian Soares with a backhand winner, to the delight of the Indians in theÃÂ ...
The News Minute
January 20, 2018
Brazil's largest ecosystem of startups 'StartSe' which has over 120,000 entrepreneurs, investors and mentors in its community is looking to explore opportunities in the Indian startup space. Starting with Hyderabad, a group of 23 entrepreneurs and investors from StartSe will be interacting with startups andÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
January 19, 2018
Gustavo Cabral recently moved to South Florida from Brazil to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. ... Jefty Joseph and Ilmart Christophe ignored Cabral's willingness to hand over money, then kidnapped him and later shot him to death inside a vacant home in the Indian Pines neighborhood west of LakeÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
January 19, 2018
If the conviction is upheld, Brazilian law states da Silva should be barred from running in this year's president election, for which he has already started campaigning. Some legal experts have argued he might be able to remain a contender until all his legal recourses have been exhausted. Da Silva, who isÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
January 19, 2018
Pope Francis shakes hands with an indigenous woman during a meeting with Amazon basin community members from Peru, Brazil and Bolivia, in the ... "We ask you to defend us," said Yesica Patiachi, a representative of the Harakbut people - one of 23 indigenous peoples specifically mentioned in theÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
January 18, 2018
Since its founding in 1648, the Brazilian Army (EB, in Portuguese) has maintained a partnership with the indigenous peoples of Brazil's forests and border areas. The First Border Special Platoon (1ú PEF, in Portuguese) is one such union. Indigenous soldiers serve as liaisons with natives from the 23à...
South China Morning Post
January 14, 2018
It might also explain how the Indian immigrant to Hong Kong, a vegetarian for three decades, could sit atop a restaurant business that includes several ... a diversified restaurant platform offering a range of concepts and cuisines: Thai, Greek, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese, French, Italian, Brazilian and a fewÃÂ ...
Jing Daily
January 14, 2018
Indian consumers even more so. Could 2018 be the year that technology and biology finally fuse? About a third of consumers (32 percent in China and 33 percent in India) would like to have smartphone technology “integrated into their anatomies”, compared to a 12 percent global average, says HavasÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
January 14, 2018
BHUBANESWAR: Odissi dancers from United Kingdom (UK) and Brazil on Sunday participated in the 57th Ekamra Walks organised at Mukteshwar Temple in the Capital. They are here to witness the Mukteshwar Dance Festival. Odissi dancers from UK Katie Ryan, Kali Chandrasegaram and SanjeevaniÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
January 13, 2018
Lula was Brazil's first democratically elected leftist and was credited with helping lift 30 million Brazilians out of poverty. He was hugely popular during ... In August, Brazilian lawmakers tossed out a corruption charge against the current president, center-right leader Michel Temer. Stay up to date on all theÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
January 13, 2018
He shoulders almost all the responsibility for the environmental protection of Tumucumaque National Park in the Brazilian Amazon, a reserve the size of the ... of prioritising economic interests over the protection of the Amazon and its indigenous people, dozens of whom are reported to be killed annually.
Hurriyet Daily News
January 12, 2018
In Puerto Maldonado, a small trading center of the Amazon rainforest in southeastern Peru, Francis will be welcomed by some 3,500 indigenous people from areas stretching into Bolivia and Brazil. The environmentally-conscious pope has a soft spot for the Amazon and will hold a special assembly ofÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
January 11, 2018
Although the violence and overcrowding in Brazil's prisons are no secret, Brazilians are getting a bird's eye view of the conditions as disturbing cell phone videos secretly taken by inmates are finding their way into social media. One video, shot in a prison in southern Brazil, shows a long line of inmates thatÃÂ ...
Folha de S.Paulo
January 9, 2018
Folha - There are reports of isolated indigenous people killed by gold prospectors along the Amazonas river and in areas invaded by loggers. How do you ... a lot of money. And these guys get what they want, because what the government wants today is the end of Funai (the National Indian Foundation).
Brazzil.com
January 7, 2018
Brazil's government announced a major shift away from its policy of building mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon – a strategy born during the country's military ... However, because the government never officially canceled the dam, Indians and environmentalists have long feared that the project could beÃÂ ...
Economic Times
December 18, 2017
Smart Eyes can detect unusual movements, breaking of traffic rules, halting or parking vehicles in unauthorised areas, etc, to make it easier for authorities, Renato Werner, the chief executive of Polsec who is also a member of the advisory board of the India-Brazil Chamber of Commerce, told ET.
Metro
December 11, 2017
An incredible series of images has offered a rare glimpse of life within remote tribes of people in Brazil. Ricardo ... The collection of images has now been published in a book, called Brazilian Indians. ... 'The photos provide an overview of the contemporary situation of the indigenous people in Brazil.
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
De Simone's gang has branches in several Brazilian states to control cocaine trafficking routes from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, the world's three biggest producers. Brazil is an important trafficking route to Europe. De Simone, 41, was freed in February last year after serving a decade behind bars. He wasÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
December 31, 1999
However, grassroots environmental and indigenous resistance continues to grow, and important Brazilian Supreme Court decisions are expected in the .... an NGO which works with indigenous people globally, told Mongabay: “2018 is likely to be a grim year for indigenous peoples in the Amazon, as theÃÂ ...
Independent Catholic News
December 13, 2017
A retired Brazilian police commissioner was last week sentenced to over 14 years in prison for the aggravated murder of Spanish Jesuit Brother Vicente Canas in the Amazonian Mato Grosso region in 1987 ... Vicente Canas went to Brazil in 1966 and became a champion of the rights of indigenous peoples.
Infosurhoy
December 13, 2017
The 47-year-old started to photograph native Brazilians in 2015 for his new book, Brazilian Indians. He said: 'The pictures show ... 'I've been a professional photographer for 29 years, and have been photographing Brazil's Indigenous people since 1996, when I visited an Yanomany tribe. Since then, I haveÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
December 13, 2017
Last year, the European parliament also passed Resolution 2016/2991(RSP), specifically urging the Brazilian government to enforce human rights for the ... A recently published report, by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), found a marked rise in violent attacks on indigenous people in BrazilÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
December 11, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO: European aircraft giant Airbus will pay some 30 million reais ($9.1 million) in compensation to relatives of the 199 people killed in a 2007 air crash in Sao Paulo, a lawyer said Monday. "After years of negotiations, 33 families have signed the terms of the agreement with Airbus," GabrielaÃÂ ...
Metro
December 11, 2017
An incredible series of images has offered a rare glimpse of life within remote tribes of people in Brazil. Ricardo ... The collection of images has now been published in a book, called Brazilian Indians. ... 'The photos provide an overview of the contemporary situation of the indigenous people in Brazil.
Morung Express
December 10, 2017
Brazilian Indigenous people during one of their regular protests in Rio de Janeiro demanding the demarcation of their lands and to be taken into account ... Indigenous peoples, recognised as the best guardians of the world's forests, are losing some battles in Brazil in the face of intensified pressure from theÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
December 7, 2017
On Thursday, renowned Brazilian graffiti artist Michael Devis showed the people of Noida how street art can be used to preserve one's history and ... He displayed his 'Indian' work depicting an elderly woman resting against a banyan tree while narrating stories from a book to the wild animals of a forest.
The Indian Express
December 7, 2017
A handful of new organizations are trying to channel the Brazilian's anger against the government into reinvigorating the country's democracy by luring fresh ... the largest corruption scandal in Latin America and more than a year under what may be the most unpopular president in the world, Brazilians are ...
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
December 5, 2017
The purpose of reconstructing the concept of the developmental state in these terms is not somehow to restore the developmentalist credentials of the Indian and Brazilian states, but rather to locate their developmental strategies in the historical 'catch-up treadmill' and, in so far as it makes clear that the ...
Economic Times
December 5, 2017
First, better currency performance helped prop up returns of emerging markets other than India. The currency appreciation against the dollar in the resource-rich countries such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa, and Chile was 20-50 per cent in the past two years compared with 14 per cent for the Indian rupee, ...
Mongabay.com
December 5, 2017
Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people ... ecosystem, “leading to the extinction of key plant and animal species,” Whaldener Endo, a conservation biologist with the National Research Centre for Carnivore Conservation in Brazil, said in an email.
Earth Island Journal
December 5, 2017
The findings led to an unprecedented level of support by the European Parliament for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and Latin America, Lukas van Diermen, ... When Temer came to power last year his government decreased the budget for FUNAI (Brazilian Indian Foundation) by more than 40 percent.
Inter Press Service
December 5, 2017
Brazilian Indigenous people during one of their regular protests in Rio de Janeiro demanding the demarcation of their lands and to be taken into account in ... RIO DE JANEIRO , Dec 4 2017 (IPS) - Indigenous peoples, recognised as the best guardians of the world's forests, are losing some battles in Brazil in the face of ...
The News Minute
December 3, 2017
In a tragic incident, an escape from everyday life hassles resulted in death for an Indian-American living in New York city. 49-year-old Rohina Bhandary, identified as a US citizen, was killed by a tiger shark when she went snorkelling off an emote island in Costa Rica, a Central American island nation, ...
Sidelines Online
December 1, 2017
Anthropologist Glenn Shepard, archaeologist Helena Lima present lectures on research of indigenous peoples of Brazil ... We get to show Kayapo girls as beautiful, as Indians and as Brazilians at the same time … ... Shepard explained some of the history surrounding indigenous peoples and filmmaking.
Mintpress News (blog)
December 1, 2017
A spike in violence against Indigenous people and rural workers in the Brazilian Amazon has been accompanied by increasing deforestation in protected .... indians killed over the demarcation of land, as they demand the demarcation of indigenous lands, outside the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil.
The New Indian Express
November 30, 2017
New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) The Cabinet today approved signing of an investment cooperation and facilitation treaty between India and Brazil. The treaty will result in increase of investment flows between the two countries and provide facilitation to Brazilian investors in India and vice versa. "The Union Cabinet ...
The Guardian
November 28, 2017
In Brazil, there are 85,000 spread across eight states. ... “When we go to the city barefoot and semi-naked, non-indigenous people are critical,” says Danilo Benites Uiramiri. ... “I was told not to bring the lice of the 'little Indians' to work.” ... After 11 years of research, the National Indian Foundation (Funai) in ...
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