Ecowars in Maranhão, NE Brazil

We Fight For This Land

Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62 mins – 2024)

This documentary film follows the lives of two communities in the Amazon state of Maranhão, Brazil, who are resisting ecoviolence and attempting to retain their traditional, and more sustainable, life systems. The Quilombola community – descendants of escaped slaves – in Boa Hora3/Manorama have been living off the land for generations. The Ka’apor Indigenous community have been resisting settler violence since the beginning of colonisation. They face ongoing ecoviolence in the form of assassinations of their leaders and landgrabbing by local farmers.

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Quilombola Human Rights Defenders

2023, 6 mins

Webinar with UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor

4 September 2023
Human Rights Defenders in the Amazon Under Threat

watch the webinar here

Brazil’s Ecowars: Parallel Event, UN Human Rights Council

Geneva, 4 October, 2023

watch here

Statement to the Committee on Children’s Rights

September 2024

Statement to the Committee on Children’s Rights

Regarding its Pre-sessional Review of Brazil’s Record of Compliance with the Convention on Children’s Rights (99th Session September 2024)

This submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child was led by the Federation of Rural Workers, Farmers and Family Farmers of the State of Maranhão, Brazil, (FETAEMA) with the support of collaborating research partners the Community Association for Health and Agriculture Education (ACESA), the Maranhão Agroecology Network (RAMA), the Centre for Networked Teaching and Learning at the State University of Goiás, the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, the Mitchel Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast.

See the full statement here

Chemical warfare of pesticides and unsustainability of soybeans: impacts on traditional peoples and communities in Maranhão

September 2024

‘Chemical warfare of pesticides and unsustainability of soybeans: impacts on traditional peoples and communities in Maranhão’

This twelve-page booklet was produced by the Federation of Rural Workers and Family Farmers Maranhão (FETAEMA), the Community Association for Health and Agriculture Education (ACESA), the Maranhão Agroecology Network (RAMA), the Centre for Networked Teaching and Learning at the State University of Goiás, the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, and the Mitchel Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast for distribution during the delegations visit to Geneva in 2024 for the meeting with the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN Special rapporteur on toxics and human rights Dr. Marcus Orellana, and the mandate teams of the Working Group on People of African Descent and the UNSRs for the Environment and Human Rights Defenders.

See the full booklet here