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LatinNews Daily - 17 May 2024

BRAZIL: NGOs highlight threats to quilombolas

On 16 May Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and human rights group Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (Conaq) released a report showing that nearly all of Brazil’s quilombola communities, Afro-Brazilian descendants of escaped slaves who founded rural settlements, were facing threats such as environmental degradation.

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