Para: Belo Monte Dam May Lead Brazil To OAS High Court

Para: Belo Monte Dam May Lead Brazil To OAS High Court   Local communities and NGOs deliver petition exposing human rights violations to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights   Local communities and NGOs delivered a petition to the Organization of American States' (OAS) human rights body today claiming that Brazil has steamrolled human rights in its rush to fast-track construction of the controversial Belo Monte Dam, slated for construction on the Xingu River in the Amazon interior. The...

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