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A case study from Brazil
How the European Union can best integrate deforestation and rights violations data in its regulatory proposals
15/12/2021
An EU Forest Observatory could play an important role in monitoring deforestation, human rights violations, and land use in supply chains of products and commodities such as soybeans and beef.
This summary report looks at what can be learnt from Brazil’s efforts and concludes with recommendations for the EU, including how to enforce the future Regulation on deforestation-free products.
This EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement will increase trade in the agricultural products that are the main drivers of deforestation in South America. This is opposite of what needs to happen for the EU to achieve its commitments to...
27/01/2021
Les effets des accords commerciaux se répercutent sur les communautés locales, sur la vie individuelle des femmes, des hommes et des enfants, ainsi que sur les forêts et les habitats qui les entourent.
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02/12/2020
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Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020
Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...
26/06/2020
In June 2019 the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) announced that they had reached an ‘in principle’ agreement on the content of a bilateral trade agreement which they had been negotiating,...
02/06/2020
On August 29, twenty-six NGOs, have sent an open letter to European leaders urging them to end European complicity in the fires raging in the Amazon.
NGOs believe the EU can act decisively in two ways.
1. Suspend...
29/08/2019
On June 18, 340+ civil society organizations wrote to call on the European Union to use its influence to prevent a worsening human rights and environmental situation in Brazil.
18/06/2019
A new reality has unfolded in Brazil in the 100 days since Jair Bolsonaro became leader of the world’s fourth largest democracy.
Incursions by armed invaders on Indigenous Peoples’ lands have surged.
An assault on the country’s...
10/04/2019
L’Union européenne (UE) a pris des engagements fermes en vue d’atténuer le changement climatique, de mettre fin à la déforestation et de veiller au respect des droits humains, y compris les droits fonciers des communautés.
Ce...
20/10/2018
