BANGKOK - Conflicts over land and water flared across the world this year amid greater competition for resources and increasing hostility towards farmers and indigenous people, according to two report
s published Tuesday.
Colombia recorded 27 killings, while Brazil had nine, with most crimes linked to energy, mining, plantation and logging industries. The Philippines was also ranked the deadliest nation for land rights activists last year by another human rights group, Britain-based Global Witness, which recorded 164 killings worldwide.In Brazil, indigenous tribes are facing escalating violence under Bolsonaro, with two indigenous men shot dead last week, not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was killed last month.
"Dams can exacerbate poverty and worsen conditions for people who earn their livelihoods from land and river ecosystems," it said.
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