Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals

Grist
By Miacel Spotted ElkJun 2, 2025, 4:30 am17 pts
Miguel Guimaraes, a Shipibo-Konibo leader, has spent his life protesting palm oil plantations and other agribusiness ventures exploiting the Amazon rainforest in his homeland of Peru. Last spring, as he attended a United Nations conference on protecting human rights defenders in Chile, masked men broke into his…

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