Brazil:Yanomami meet to discuss mining and health 24 November 2008Two hundred Yanomami representatives, from Brazil and Venezuela, are meeting this week for the third general assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami Association.
Brazil:Yanomami denounce illegal gold miners 16 October 2008Two Yanomami Indian communities have written to the Brazilian government, denouncing the invasion of their land by illegal gold miners.
Brazil:Yanomami slam government over mining 10 April 2008Yanomami and Yekuana Indians from two communities have denounced the Brazilian government’s attempts to persuade them to accept large-scale mining on their land.
Brazil:UK’s Channel 4 to expose mining on Yanomami land 9 April 2008The acclaimed Channel 4 current affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, is to broadcast a documentary tomorrow exposing the devastating effects of illegal goldmining on the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
Brazil:Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town 15 February 2008A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.
Brazil:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami threatened with death 16 November 2007A rancher who is illegally occupying land within the Yanomami indigenous territory in Brazil has threatened to kill renowned Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa.
Germany:Brazilian Indian leader – Germany must sign international law 26 October 2007Brazilian shaman Davi Yanomami delivered a letter to the German Chancellor’s office this week, urging the German government to sign the key international law on tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169.
Brazil:Police arrest health officials for fraud 25 October 2007Federal police in Brazil arrested 35 people suspected of misappropriation of funds from the National Health Foundation, FUNASA, in the state of Roraima yesterday.
