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Members of the indigenous guard of the native community of Puerto Nuevo, of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, located in the central-eastern jungle of Peru. Credit: Courtesy of Marcelo Odicio
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29/07/2024
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Government Indifferent to Invasion of Drug Traffickers in the Peruvian Amazon
29/07/2024
Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian Brazil
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An igapó, a flood-prone wooded area on the Vuelta Grande of the Xingu River, with fruit on the dry ground. This is where the piracema, or fish reproduction, was supposed to take place, frustrated by the scarcity of water released by the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on this stretch of the river in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. The fruits are lost and stop feeding the fish by falling on the ground and not in the water. Credit: Mati / VGX
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29/07/2024
‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’
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(UN News)* — Senior UN officials on Friday [] reiterated the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, and escalating threat to aid workers, urging immediate action prevent further deterioration.
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Muhannad Hadi, Deputy UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and Antonia De Meo, Deputy Commissioner-General of the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, briefed the Security Council on the dire situation.
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