In solidarity with indigenous organizations, federations and nationalities at the Amazon regional level, Pax Christi International co-signed a statement to express deep concern about the impending threat of COVID-19 in their ancestral territories and communities and to demand integrated, effective, and culturally adequate state responses to this crisis. This begins with an immediate moratorium on any activity that includes the entering of foreign persons into indigenous territories, the development of mining activities, logging, oil exploration and extraction, industrial agriculture, religious proselytization, or increased militarization, especially in transborder territories under pressure from armed actors and organized crime.
Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Facing the Coronavirus
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