Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil

Mongabay
Apr 28, 2022, 10:04 am363 pts
Illegal miners operating insider the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon are coercing Indigenous girls as young as 11 into sex work, as well as inflicting violence and disease on the wider population, a recent investigation says. “Many miners are enticing teenage girls and women in the…

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