land killings

63 Dead In Brazil Land Killings As Political Crisis Continues

This year’s sharp rise in violent conflicts over land and resources in Brazil further intensified over the past three months, new figures show.
The research, shared with Unearthed by Brazilian human rights group Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT), shows that more people were killed in rural land conflicts in the first nine months of 2017 than in the whole of last year.