Brazil – OLMA launches Synthesis on Socio-Environmental Conflicts in Brazil
The National Observatory of Socio-Environmental Justice Luciano Mendes de Almeida – OLMA launched the Synthesis [Document] on Socio-Environmental Conflicts in Brazil between 2016 and 2022. The publication concisely reports relevant aspects of systematic complaints about this agenda in the country in recent years.
The document is an extensive collection of information received by the executive secretariat of the institution from reports and documents from different national and international organisations that analysed and denounced the serious violations experienced by diverse peoples and territories in the period mentioned above.
The document is divided into two sections: socio-environmental issues in a broad context where the setbacks and the dismantling of environmental policies are presented, and issues related to indigenous peoples and traditional communities, bringing together the different complaints of human and collective rights violations.
The socio-environmental complaints systematised here are a striking warning about the harmful effects that the exploitation of nature and the neglect of traditional and original communities have caused. Also highlighted are scenarios in times of neoliberal and fundamentalist governments that supported the denial of climate change, the suppression of human rights and the ban on democracy.
These analyses highlight the urgent construction of public policies and effective socio-environmental programs that can challenge and finally overcome the inequalities historically rooted and systematically reproduced in the structures of our society.
Finally, the Report systematised by OLMA, from the documents produced by dozens of organisations that often suffer attacks and persecutions, goes beyond this period, reaffirming their commitment to life, people, democracy and nature. Additionally, it serves as bibliographical and documentary support and reference for different research. It seeks to keep our collective memory vigilant about the threats that certain political currents still active in Brazil represent and the damage they can cause.
Click on the link below and have access to the document!
Socio-Environmental Conflicts – Report 2016-2022
Source: olma.org.br
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