Saskia Bricmont
Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), Saskia Bricmont is deeply committed to human rights, environmental justice, and fair international trade. She is one of the leading figures in the European campaign against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, denouncing its devastating consequences for tropical forests and Indigenous Peoples. In […]
Adélaïde Charlier
Belgian activist for social and climate justice, Adélaïde Charlier rose to prominence as co-founder and spokesperson of the Youth for Climate movement, which mobilized tens of thousands of young people across Belgium starting in 2019. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and, before her, by Severn Cullis-Suzuki, she embodies a generation determined to pressure governments into taking […]
Jojo Mehta
Co-founder and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, Jojo Mehta is one of the leading figures in the global movement to have ecocide recognized as an international crime. A graduate of Oxford and London universities, she has, since 2020, coordinated the panel of legal experts that produced the first independent definition of ecocide, which is […]
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
A former trade unionist turned central figure in Brazilian politics, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, before being re-elected in 2022 amid a deep social, environmental, and institutional crisis. His return to power came with strong commitments to the rights of Indigenous Peoples, but quickly ran up […]
Sydney Possuelo
Sydney Ferreira Possuelo is one of the last great explorers of the twentieth century, and undoubtedly one of the most ethical. Born in 1940 in São Paulo, he discovered his vocation alongside the legendary Villas-Bôas brothers, pioneers of the Xingu Indigenous Park, whom he accompanied in the 1960s. During this period, he formed a deep […]
Val Munduruku
A Brazilian Indigenous activist from the Munduruku people, Valdineia Sauré—known as Val Munduruku—is from Jacareacanga, in the state of Pará. The first in her community to access higher education, she earned in 2020 a degree in public administration and regional development from the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA). Committed to defending the rights of […]
Chief Ninawa Huni Kui
A Chief from the state of Acre, on the border with Peru, Ninawa Inu Huni Kui is one of Brazil’s leading Indigenous leaders. President of FEPHAC (Federation of the Huni Kui People of the State of Acre), he represents nearly 15,000 members of the Huni Kui people, across 104 villages established on 12 traditional territories. […]
Alessandra Korap
An Indigenous leader and environmental activist, Brazilian and Munduruku, Alessandra Korap Munduruku was born in 1985 in Itaituba, in the state of Pará. She is internationally recognized for her commitment to protecting Indigenous territories and to preserving the Amazon. In 2016, Alessandra played a decisive role in suspending the planned Tapajós River hydroelectric dam complex, […]
Valdelice Veron
A leading figure in Brazil’s Indigenous movement, Valdelice Veron has for years fought for the demarcation of ancestral lands, the defense of her people’s fundamental rights, and the preservation of their territory, the Tekoha. The daughter of the Cacique Marcos Veron, assassinated in 2003, she continues this struggle with unwavering determination. Because of her commitment, […]
Chief Davi Kopenawa
A Yanomami shaman, thinker, and tireless defender, Davi Kopenawa was born in 1956 near the Toototobi River, on the Brazil–Venezuela border. A survivor of epidemics brought by settlers, he learned Portuguese early and became one of the most powerful Indigenous voices in the Amazon. In the 1980s he joined FUNAI (Brazil’s National Foundation for Indigenous […]