{"id":36560,"date":"2022-10-11T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=36560"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:50:01","slug":"brazil-is-the-country-that-most-kills-land-activists-according-to-report-by-global-witness","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/brazil-is-the-country-that-most-kills-land-activists-according-to-report-by-global-witness\/","title":"Brazil is the country that most kills land activists, according to report by Global Witness","content":"

The rural activist Fernando Ara\u00fajo dos Santos, a member of the Landless Movement, was a survivor of the largest massacre of rural workers in Brazil of the last 25 years: the Massacre of Pau D\u2019Arco. At the time, 16 civil and military police officers took the lives of ten people who were occupying the Santa L\u00facia Farm in the municipality of Pau D\u2019Arco, in the state of Par\u00e1, in 2017. Despite surviving the brutality of the officers, Ara\u00fajo, who knows the sordid details of the massacre, was killed in his own home in January 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that something terrible is coming our way here at Santa L\u00facia [farm],\u201d he predicted in an interview with Rep\u00f3rter Brasil<\/a> two weeks before he was shot in the back of the head. In the interview, Santos had already said that he was being sought after by the officers involved to change his statement to the court. \u201cThe police are thinking of coming here to arrange it so there are no more witnesses before the trial. If there are no witnesses, there can be no trial.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite awaiting trial by jury, the 16 officers are still employed in 2022 and carrying out their policing activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ara\u00fajo\u2019s story is contained in the <\/span>report by the British organization Global Witness<\/b>, which monitors crimes against human rights defenders, particularly land and environmental activists. In this recently-released document, the organization reports on the global victims in 2021 and on the number of killings over the last decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recording a total of 200 murders in 2021 \u2013 of which 68% were in Latin America \u2013 the report identifies the need to create defense mechanisms for people who stand up for land and the environment against the backdrop of the climate crisis in which deforestation rates in the Amazon continue to increase. It is no wonder that in Brazil, Peru and Venezuela, 78% of the attacks took place in the Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Land inequality<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to the report, conflicts over the use and control of land are a key issue in most countries where threats are made against environmental defenders. \u201cMuch of the increasing violence, killings and repression against defenders is linked to such conflicts and the pursuit of economic growth based on the extraction of natural resources,\u201d reads the document. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is exacerbated by extreme inequality in land ownership, which is also one of the main drivers of social and economic inequality, particularly in Latin America.\u201d The organization also points out that the colonization process in the region left deep marks of historic violence. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2012, when Global Witness started reporting on the killings, there have been 1733 violent deaths worldwide, of which 39% were indigenous peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Situation in Brazil<\/b><\/h2>\n

In Brazil alone, there were 342 lethal attacks, making it the country that most kills activists in the world. Colombia, Philippines, Mexico and Honduras appear next in the ranking, with 322, 270, 154 and 117 killings, respectively. Among the murdered Brazilians, one in three were indigenous or black.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe data in the report are alarming, particularly as they show that indigenous, quilombola and other traditional peoples are the groups most affected by the deadly violence that persecutes land and environmental defenders,\u201d said J\u00falia Mello Neiva, coordinator of the Defense of Socioenvironmental Rights program at Conectas. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the case of indigenous peoples, <\/span>research published in the journal Nature<\/span><\/a> shows that they represent less than 5% of the world\u2019s population but are responsible for protecting and preserving 80% of the planet\u2019s biodiversity. \u201cThese people live off their land and, in general, are responsible for protecting these areas, even collaborating to tackle the climate crisis. Resuming and strengthening protection mechanisms for environmental defenders are urgent actions to ensure the preservation of human life and the environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the scientist and activist Vandana Shiva wrote in the report, it is the people who fight for the land and the environment who best understand how the fate of humanity is entwined in the fate of the natural places they defend. This is why they deserve protection. \u201cAll of us must continue to shine a light on these stories, not just to remember those who have fallen but to continue their urgent and necessary work by telling the world exactly why they were killed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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