BRASILIA, April 11 (Reuters) - An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...

Map of gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in December 2020 (Source: SMGI; Image courtesy of Hutukara Associação Yanomami and the Wanassedume Associação Ye’kwana via Courthouse News) RIO DE ...

“I’m in mourning because my people [are] dying … children are dying for nothing.” These are the words of Davi Kopenawa, author of “The Falling Sky” and a prominent leader of the Yanomami Indigenous ...

A Yanomami man is pictured in a 2019 photo standing near an illegal gold mine on Indigenous land in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters) Communities of the ...

2002-10-01 04:00:00 PDT Surucucu, Brazil-- The Yanomami Indians have lived precariously in the most remote reaches of the jungle here for thousands of years, hunting with bows and arrows and warring ...

The invasion of miners into Yanomami land has deepened the challenges faced by the children and adolescents of this indigenous territory, as per a report released this week by the United Nations ...

Bishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil, recalls attending a meeting about development in the Amazonian state of Roraima, home of the Indigenous Yanomami people, at which a government official ...

BRASILIA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Shaman Davi Kopenawa, chief of the Yanomami people who live on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation, fears a pending Supreme Court decision on native land claims could ...

Three indigenous babies from the Yanomami Indigenous group who died with suspected COVID-19 infection were buried in a cemetery in the city of Boa Vista, in Brazil’s Roraima state, far from their ...