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Survival International: Ten Brazilian indigenous leaders to protest in London

Ten indigenous leaders from across Brazil will take part in a major protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in London on November 14 to demand an end to the destruction of their lands and people.

At the demo the leaders will hand in to the embassy the Racist of the Year award, which this year has been won by President Bolsonaro for his openly racist abuse of indigenous people and genocidal attacks on their rights.

When: 9-10.30am, Thursday November 14, 2019

Where: Brazilian embassy, 14-16 Cockspur St, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5BL.

Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More advocacy tour

The indigenous leaders are in London as part of the Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More advocacy tour organized by APIB, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. They are calling on people in Europe to boycott Brazilian agribusiness until their rights are respected.

Their visit comes after an intensification of attacks on indigenous peoples in recent weeks. The indigenous Amazon Guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was assassinated in an ambush by at least five armed loggers in the Araribóia Indigenous Territory in the eastern Amazon last Friday, November 1. At dawn on October 31, FUNAI’s monitoring post for uncontacted tribes in the Javari Valley, in the western Amazon, was attacked by armed men.

Full press release: https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/12258

 

Original article link: https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/12258

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