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Brazil: The rice war on indigenous land

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 @ 19:08 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Environment, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Indigenous, Law, Media, War & Conflict
Languages:: Portuguese

Brazil's Supreme Court decides today about the future of Raposa Serra do Sol's Indigenous land. Observatório da Imprensa [Press Observatory, pt] have published two texts about the media coverage of the subject. One of them is called The Rice War [pt]: “The press still own us an approach that will help to overthrow prejudices against indigenous peoples and question the idea that the Amazon can survive to the extensive livestock and agriculture.”

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