Brazil Should Join Regional Environmental Pact

Click to expand Image Caru Indigenous Territory, Maranhão state, Brazil, 2019. © 2019 César Muñoz Acebe/Human Rights Watch President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took an important step to strengthen protection for environmental defenders across Brazil by sending the Escazú Agreement to Congress for approval on May 11. This historic treaty – the first of its kind in Latin America and the Caribbean – would help shore up Brazil’s role on protecting the environment and its defenders. The agreement had been gathering dust in Brasília for years. Neither the president who signed it in 2018, Michel…

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