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| Doto Takak Ire, leader of the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land 馃摲 Fred Mauro/Terra Floresta Filmes/ISA |
Kayap贸 Forest Defenders Urge United Nations to Help Halt Illegal Gold Mining in Brazil
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 23, 2024
GENEVA -- Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its mercury contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of Kayap贸, Yanomami and Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Doto Takak Ire, Meb锚ng么kre, said, "The Kayap贸 are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests."