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Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize | Environmental activism

An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood. Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, 57, from the village of Shapajila on the Marañon River,…

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Neirud review – a mysterious family relationship that unravels Brazil’s complex social fabric | Film

Buried secrets bubble to the surface in Brazilian film-maker Fernanda Faya’s tender and searching documentary, which seeks to disentangle the hidden knots of her fascinating family tree. The film opens with lovingly recorded home videos of various gatherings, including her childhood birthday celebrations, the only time of the year when her paternal grandmother, Nelly, would…

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