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Brazil: Indigenous Cargill Blockade

Indigenous Peoples Maintain Indefinite Blockade of Cargill on the Tapajós River. The Indigenous occupation at Cargill’s grain terminal in Santarém entered its 20th day, deepening the movement’s stando...
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Brazil: Protests to Defend Tapajós River

More than 800 Indigenous peoples are occupying the Cargill port in Santarém, Brazil. After a hearing with government representatives, they blocked the only road to the city’s airport demanding to be h...
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Water for sale: from the Thames to the Amazon

Polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift. And now Britain’s water privatisation concept is being exported to Brazil. The sight of raw sewage pouring into rivers has become di...
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Privatization Thanks to Water Crises?

Water crises in Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro: an opportunity for privatization? Water crises in Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro reveal how the lack of water becomes an opportunity to privatize a re...
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Indigenous Resistance Against Agribusiness

Indigenous people occupy agribusiness company building in protest against river dredging project in Pará.  Movement denounces environmental risks, lack of permits, and threats to archaeological site...
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Brazil: Human Right to Water

From HumanRight2Water: How are the human rights to water and sanitation upheld without explicit legal recognition? Brazil shows that constitutional silence does not mean inaction. As HR2W Legal Expert...
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BLUE TALK with Léo Heller

BLUE TALK with Blue Community Ambassador LÉO HELLER, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Drinking Water and Sanitation. He is currently Leading Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundatio...
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Rio Pardo: A River Destined to Resist

From the Blue Community in Brazil: From 21 to 23 November 2025, representatives of communities, organisations, social movements and researchers travelled through territories in Minas Gerais and Bahia ...
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COP30: Hope Despite Disappointing Results

Claus Wilkens, retired teacher and Blue Community / Blue School activist from Büdingen, Germany, lives now in Brazil. He took part in the COP30 in Bélem and gave an interview on his impressions:  Desp...
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