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• ‘I shout from the rooftops that I exist’: Brazil’s Indigenous people reclaim their identities

  07-08-2023 15:00
  
  The number of Brazilians who identify as Indigenous grew by nearly 90% in just 12 years, after years of fighting for rightsWhen a census taker came knocking on Vahnessa de Oliveira Ferreira’s door in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 and asked her how she identified racially, she replied “mixed”. Twelve years later, when asked the same question for Brazil’s 2022 census, she had changed her answer to “Indigenous”.“Indigenous people learned to justify themselves [as
  
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• ‘I shout from the rooftops I exist’: Brazilians identifying as Indigenous up by 90% in 12 years

  07-08-2023 15:00
  
  A growing number of Brazilians are reclaiming their Indigenous identity, after years of fighting for rightsWhen a census taker came knocking on Vahnessa de Oliveira Ferreira’s door in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 and asked her how she identified racially, she replied “mixed”. Twelve years later, when asked the same question for Brazil’s 2022 census, she had changed her answer to “Indigenous”.“Indigenous people learned to justify themselves [as mixed-race] beca
  
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• Progress on slowing deforestation could boost climate efforts, say experts

  07-08-2023 08:00
  
  Reduction in primary forest loss in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as Brazil and Colombia, offers hope for tropical forests across the worldFalling deforestation rates in countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Colombia and Brazil could provide a boost to climate and biodiversity efforts, experts say, in the run-up to a key summit on the future of the Amazon rainforest.In the coming days, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will host a pan-Amazonian summit on the future
  
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