Welch Statement on the Plight of the Yanomami of Venezuela
Document from Senator Peter Welch | March 11, 2024
Tag: Yanomami
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Brazil says illegal miners driven from Indigenous territory, but ‘war’ not over
Article by Tom Phillips, The Guardian I July 10, 2023
Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve: Garimpeiro Invasion from Brazil Intensifies with Support from the Venezuelan Government
In this update of the report published in August 2020, recent data is presented on the human rights situation of the indigenous peoples that inhabit the RBAOC, with emphasis on the health and health care issues, as well as the continued and increasing invasion of illegal miners “garimpeiros” from Brazil. In addition, the recent events […]
Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela
Article by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay I July 29, 2022
Four Indigenous people killed in ‘clash’ with Venezuelan military over WiFi
Article by Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post I March 31, 2022
CIDH emite medidas cautelares a favor de miembros de los Pueblos Indígenas Yanomami y Ye'kwana
La solicitud presentada por la Asociación Hutukara Yanomami y el Conselho Nacional de Direitos Humanos se refiere a los miembros la Tierra Indígena Yanomami, constituida por 321 aldeas que incluyen pueblos de contacto reciente y algunos en aislamiento voluntario. Las personas beneficiarias se encontrarían en una situación especial de riesgo ante la pandemia de COVID-19.
Illegal Mining, Guerrillas & Disease in the Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve 2019
The Alto Orinoco – Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve (RBAOC) comprises one of the geographical areas of greatest cultural diversity in the entire Amazon; Indigenous communities of 17 different ethnic groups live there. Each of these peoples is the bearer of a unique cultural heritage, and as a whole they give an extraordinary universe of linguistic diversity, worldviews, mythologies, history, art and ancestral knowledge, which are a true, unique and irreplaceable contribution to Humanity through the conservation of socio-diversity and biodiversity.
Yanomami threatened by measles outbreak
Yanomami children, Alto Ocamo, Amazonas, Venezuela
Photo ©cvb 1984
When a government deliberately stops providing essential vaccinations for the most vulnerable people such as the Yanomami putting them at risk of contracting transferable diseases such as measles, diptheria, polio that are known to decimate indigenous peoples, we need to denounce and raise our voices regarding this abuse of human rights. President Nicolas Maduro and his Minister of Health @LuisLopezPSUV have deliberately stopped vaccinating the Yanomami and they are now at tremendous risk
“Scars” left by illegal mining controlled by the Farc in Amazonas
Look at the scars left by #illegalmining – prohibited by Decree No. 269 (1989) but allowed by @NicolasMaduro & controlled by the #FARC – that destroy the #Yanomami‘s environment and threaten their livelihood.
Illegal mining on the Atabapo River, Amazonas, Venezuela
The region where three major rivers – Orinoco, Atabapo & Guaviare Rivers – come together in Amazonas State in Venezuela is controlled by the FARC with the blessing and collusion of the Bolivarian National Guard/@GNBoficial, the Bolivarian Armed Forces/#FANB and of course, Nicolas Maduro.