Brazil / COVID-19: An Amazonian Wrangle
Apart from exposing vulnerable indigenous communities to infection, COVID-19 threatens a programme that provides livelihood to the vulnerable and helps conserve freshwater fish species. Indigenous people and rural communities in Brazil’s Amazon region have been dramatically hit by COVID-19. A note issued on 10 June by the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), in response to the Brazilian government, said the actions of the official agencies in response to the pandemic are regrettable: “So far the responses of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and of the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESAI) to the COVID-19 have been slow, unco-ordinated and insufficient.
Title of publication: Samudra Report
期号: 83
国际标准刊号: 0976-1121
页数: 15-18
作者: Felipe Rossoni, Leonardo Kurihara and Gustavo Silveira
组 织: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
年份: 2020
国家: Brazil
类别: Газетная статья
全文见: https://www.icsf.net/images/samudra/pdf/english/issue_83/4424_art_Sam_83_art03_Brazil_Felipe.pdf
内容语言: English