Also in this week’s newsletter: Morocco’s protest crackdown, the Nobel Peace Prize, and our weekly 5-question quiz

In Cachoeira Seca, the Arara Indigenous people depend on the rainforest in their 733,000-hectare territory. The federal government is required to remove non-Indigenous occupants but ranchers have established more illegal ranches, reducing the availability of game and forest products, restricting Indigenous peoples’ movement in their own territory, and undermining their cultural rights.

The report also details how the world’s largest meat company, JBS, may have exported beef and hides to the European Union made with cattle sourced from the region’s illegal ranches.

As Pará prepares to host the COP30 climate summit this year, much is at stake. 

Read the new report to learn how tainted products make it from the Amazon to the EU and what should be done to protect the rainforest and uphold the rights of those who depend on it for survival.

News Around the World

On the Upside

Your good news wrap for the week:

• During its latest session, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to strengthen several crucial rights protections around the world
• And last week’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is an opportunity to promote a peaceful transition to democracy in the country

The Weekly Quiz

Caught up? Take our 5-question quiz and test your knowledge on the week’s top human rights news.