- Title: Brazil's indigenous women protest against right-wing Bolsonaro in capital
- Date: 13th August 2019
- Summary: BRASILIA, BRAZIL (AUGUST 13, 2019) (REUTERS) INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL DRESS CHANTING AND DANCING WITH OSCAR NIEMEYER'S CONGRESS BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND INDIGENOUS WOMAN SINGING IN PROTEST INDIGENOUS GROUP DANCING AND SINGING AS PART OF PROCESS VARIOUS OF INDIGENOUS GROUPS DANCING AND PROTESTING PROTESTERS HOLDING UP BANNER THAT READS, "INDIGENOUS WOMEN"
- Embargoed: 27th August 2019 18:34
- Keywords: indigenous women protest Brasilia Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro
- Location: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
- City: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
- Country: Brazil
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AS1YBLZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hundreds of indigenous women protested in Brazil's capital Brasilia on Tuesday (August 13) to demand greater access to and rights on issues such as health, education and the environment.
Alongside Oscar Niemeyer's buildings, women representing different indigenous communities across the country sang, danced and marched together in traditional dress.
Brazil has more than 850,000 indigenous people that make up less than 1 percent of its population. They live on reservations that make up about 13 percent of the country's territory, which includes areas of the Amazon.
Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has said that is too much land for so few people and has vowed to review some reservation borders and look into opening up areas of the Amazon to agriculture and mining. Indigenous groups say the land is sacred and must be protected.
According to data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, soared more than 88% in June compared with the same month a year ago.
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