Brumadinho, Seven Years Later
HONORING VICTIMS AND CALLING TO PREVENT ANOTHER TRAGEDY
On January 25, 2019, the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale S.A.’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, resulted in 272 fatalities. The majority were workers—employees of Vale and its contractors—caught in one of the deadliest workplace tragedies in recent history. Families lost loved ones, communities were shattered, and Brazil faced the painful reality of unsafe extractive practices. Every year since the disaster, CIDSE has joined victims’ families and affected communities in remembering the tragedy, honouring those who lost their lives and reaffirming the collective responsibility to ensure that such a catastrophe is never repeated...
Cover photo: Brumadinho, MG, Brazil, 2019. Credit: Mídia NINJA, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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