Escalating Violence in Rural Conflicts in Brazil In 2025, there have been fewer conflicts, if you count them. However, violence is rising, including land disputes. In short, this is the conclusion of the report released last week by Brazil’s Pastoral Land Commission. The report paints a troubling picture of rural life in 2025. While […]
Read MoreProtesters rally outside Finlandia Hall during Stora Enso AGM Helsinki, Finland — Activists gathered outside Finlandia Hall in central Helsinki to raise awareness about alleged environmental and human rights violations linked to the Nordic forestry giant Stora Enso, as the company’s annual general meeting and shareholders’ assembly took place inside. Demonstrators distributed leaflets to attendees […]
Read MoreAmid escalating land conflicts in southern Bahia, the Pataxó indigenous people are raising urgent alarm over what they describe as intensifying violence, criminalization, and corporate-driven pressures threatening their ancestral territories and fundamental rights. On February 24, 2026, the Council of Pataxó Chiefs from the Barra Velha and Comexatibá territories in Bahia, Brazil, issued a […]
Read MoreMore than 50,000 people have been evacuated in Chile’s Ñuble and Biobío regions, where wildfires have destroyed at least 250 homes and claimed a minimum of 18 lives. Authorities warn that the death toll is likely to rise as fires continue to spread. This disaster is neither sudden nor unexpected. Just two years ago, in […]
Read MoreThis is Part 2 of a story documenting EPN International Program Coordinator, Sergio Baffoni, during his month-long journey across Brazil, where he met with communities defending their customary rights and seeking support to make their struggles visible. The road stretches on for miles, hemmed in by two dense walls of sickly-looking trees. Endlessly. These are […]
Read MoreThis is Part 1 of a story documenting EPN International Program Coordinator, Sergio Baffoni, during his month-long journey across Brazil, where he met with communities defending their customary rights and seeking support to make their struggles visible. The road is dusty. Deep ruts run in both directions, worn by trucks that thunder past all day […]
Read MoreWritten by Janaina Uemura, coordinator of BAN’s Latin America working group and Davi Martins, BAN’s International Advocacy Campaigner. At the end of August 2025, the vibrant port city of Valparaíso, Chile, became a convergence point for climate justice movements and NGOs at the 4th Climate Justice Latam and the Caribbean Meeting (Cuarto Encuentro Latinoamericano y […]
Read MoreBehind Brazil’s global image as a land of natural abundance—and the host of this year’s international climate summit—lies a stark reality: centuries of violence, dispossession, and resistance in the countryside. The Atlas of Conflicts in the Brazilian Countryside, published by the Pastoral Land Commission (a Catholic Church-affiliated organization), documents more than 50,000 land and water […]
Read MoreSuzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, has requested the eviction of 600 families in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The eviction, previously blocked by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, has now been authorized and is scheduled for June 30. Suzano is a major landholder, controlling 2.7 million hectares across seven Brazilian states and […]
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