To the sound of traditional musical instruments, songs and prayers, around 8,000 Indigenous women from the six Brazilian biomes took part in the III March of Indigenous Women Sept. 11-13 in the ...

Lula promised to create the Indigenous cabinet department during his presidential campaign. On Jan. 1 he returns to power, having previously governed Brazil from 2003-10.. The appointment of ...

Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of ...

The Prince of Wales made a series of short films about the lives and perilous work of wildlife rangers around the globe ...

By Felipe Duran For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values. They’re drawing on personal experiences and reams of research to make their ...

Many Indigenous families around the world say hospital staff often don’t understand their cultures or even give them basic ...

Brazil’s newly-named Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara attends a meeting where Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced the ministers for his incoming ...

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation’s first Indigenous person to ...