100 Days of Bolsonaro: Ending the EU's Role In
100 days of Bolsonaro Ending the EU’s role in the assault on the Amazon Illegal deforestation on indigenous land - Tenharim do Igarapé Preto, Amazonas, 2018 Photo: Ibama Flickr.com / CC Endorsing NGOS Fern, Europe / Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (APIB), Brazil / Forest Peoples Programme, UK / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Europe / Both ENDS, the Netherlands / Act Alliance, Europe / Society for Threatened Peoples, Switzerland / PSEDA-ILIRIA, Albania / Estonian Forest Aid, Estonia / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regenwald & Artenschutz (ARA), Germany / PowerShift e.V., Germany / Robin Wood, Germany / Forum Ökologie & Papier, Germany / Envol Vert, Europe / Sinergia Animal, Austria / Planète Amazone, France / Canopée, France / Forests of the World, Denmark / EcoNexus, UK / Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians, international / Friends of the Earth Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Réseau Brésilien pour la Démocratie au Brésil (RED.Br), France / Friends of the Earth Finland, Finland / Comité de solidarité avec les Indiens des Amériques (CSIA-Nitassinan), France / Amazon Watch, USA / Coalition Carnival for Amazonia, Poland / Ecologistas en Acción, Spain. Ending the EU’s role in the assault on the Amazon April 2019 | Page 2 of 8 A time to act But rather than continuing to disregard the significant environmental and social costs of its trade with Brazil, the EU A new reality has unfolded in Brazil in the 100 days must take immediate specific steps to end its complicity in since Jair Bolsonaro became leader of the world’s this growing calamity, including the following: fourth largest democracy. ● Incursions by armed invaders on Indigenous The EU needs new laws to guarantee that neither products sold in the EU, nor the financial markets Peoples’ lands have surged.
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