Agribusiness

Human rights violations by pesticides: will Brazil follow toxic paths?

Article discusses Brazil's actions on pesticides in view of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council

Bolsonaro’s UN address tries to explain Brazil’s environmental disaster

President prerecorded speech rebuking international criticism of his government’s failure to protect the Amazon

MST launches Emergency Plan for People’s Agrarian Reform

Proposals to overcome social and economic crisis will be presented today (June 5) on our social networks (See the Emergency Plan below and the Special Report, also below.)

The dangers of legalizing public land theft in Brazil: agribusiness, deforestation, and the melting pot of future pandemics

Experts are highlighting two main factors behind the intensification of disease outbreaks and humans' increased vulnerability to them:

Researcher: each trespasser on indigenous land can lead to 1,600 covid-19 cases

Reports and data show land invasions heighten the risk of a “new genocide”

The comings and goings of land invaders on indigenous lands has exposed tribes to the novel coronavirus, creating a wave of infections and deaths according to data from the Free Land Settlement (ATL) gathering.

Brazil’s Pesticide Industry Is Creating Massive PFOS Contamination

While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from the toxic industrial compound PFOS, Brazil is still adding to the massive environmental mess with its large-scale production, use, and export of sulfluramid, a pesticide that degrades into PFOS.