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Flávia Milhorance

Flávia Milhorance is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro

April 2024

  • Beto Marubo and Bruno Pereira speaking with the Indigenous peoples of the Korubo tribe in the Javari valley, in 2015.

    Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill

    Advocates fear situation could escalate in Javari valley, a region plagued by violence and poor healthcare

June 2023

  • A Indigenous mother holds a baby in a sling on her hip

    The Bruno and Dom project
    Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

    As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of Brazil

September 2021

  • Prevent Senior hospital chain unity in Sao Paulo<br>A woman passes by the entrance of a Prevent Senior hospital chain unity in Sao Paulo, Brazil September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

    Brazil hospital chain accused of hiding Covid deaths and giving unproven drugs

    Group of whistleblowing doctors gave 10,000-page dossier to investigators last month with allegations against Prevent Senior
  • People stand in a queue as they wait to receive a dose of Covid vaccine in Siliguri, West Bengal, India.

    England’s Covid travel rules spark outrage around the world

    Refusal to recognise vaccines given across Latin America, Africa and south Asia has been denounced as ‘discriminatory’

    • Indigenous warrior women take fight to save ancestral lands to Brazilian capital

    • Pfizer accused of holding Brazil ‘to ransom’ over vaccine contract demands

    • Brazilian police investigate Argentina’s four Premier League players

August 2021

  • ‘Deforestation is still out of control,’ Carlos Souza, a researcher at Imazon said.

    Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade

    Rainforest lost 10,476 sq km between August 2020 and July 2021, report says, despite increasing global concern

June 2021

  • Protest Against Jair Bolsonaro, in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 26 Jun 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Cris Faga/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (12171294j) Demonstrators during a protest against Bolsonaro’s administration on June 26, 2021 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is facing a probe for pandemic mismanagement as the country counts over 500,000 deaths of COVID. The controversial decision to host the Copa America 2021 amid the coronavirus crisis is questioned by a large part of the population. Protest Against Jair Bolsonaro, in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 26 Jun 2021

    Brazil could have stopped 400,000 Covid deaths with better response, expert says

  • FILE PHOTO: Brazilians light candles to mark 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, in Rio de Janeiro<br>FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a sign during an event to light candles in honour of the 500,000 people who have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 21, 2021. The sign reads: “Where did we go wrong?” REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo

    Brazil’s inquiry into Covid disaster suggests Bolsonaro committed ‘crimes against life’

  • Indigenous Brazilians from different ethnic groups take part in a protest for land demarcation and against President Jair Bolsonaro’s government<br>Indigenous Leader Kretan Kaingang of the Kaingang tribe kicks a tear gas canister fired by police forces during a protest for land demarcation and against President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, in front of National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

    Rights and freedom
    Brazil police use teargas and rubber bullets against indigenous protesters

  • Demonstrators against President Bolasanaro in Rio de Janeiro

    Fresh protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s handling of Covid pandemic

  • A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘Makes you sick’: fury in Rio as pregnant 24-year-old killed amid police raid

May 2021

  • One of the illegal gold mines in the Uraricoera river region of the Yanomami reserve

    Brazil aerial photos show miners’ devastation of indigenous people’s land

  • Health brigada with members of Yanomami people<br>epa08540726 Members of the Yanomami people wear face mask as they attend a health brigade by the Brazilian Army in Alto Alegre municipality, Roraima state, Brazil, 30 June 2020 (issued 11 July 2020). The coronavirus has entered the largest indigenous land in Brazil and threatens the historical guardians of the Amazon and already killed at least four members of their ethnic group, including three babies. EPA/JOEDSON ALVES

    Yanomami beset by violent land-grabs, hunger and disease in Brazil

  • FILES-BRAZIL-INDIGENOUS-DEFAMATION-GUAJAJARA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 12, 2019 Brazilian Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara of the Guajajara tribe and head of the head of APIB, which represents many of Brazils 900,000 native people, speaks as fellow leader Kreta Kaygang (L), listens on, during a press conference, in Paris, as part of a tour of 12 European countries calling on EU lawmakers to exert pressure on the Brazilian government to better protect the rights of indigenous communities and for scrutiny of companies profiting from deforestation in the Amazon. - One of Brazil's main indigenous leaders, Sonia Guajajara, was convened to declare by the National Police for alleged defamation against the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, she informed on April 30, 2021. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Brazilian police target indigenous leaders after government criticism

  • Health workers transfer a 19-year-old pregnant indigenous woman to an ambulance in Sanatarem, Brazil on July 2020.

    ‘Calamity of maternal deaths’: Covid concern grows for Brazil’s pregnant

April 2021

  • Boris Johnson (left) and British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough look at a projection of planet Earth during the launch of the COP26 UN Climate Summit.

    So what has the rest of the world promised to do about climate change?

  • COVID-19; SANITATION; BRAZIL; Favela residents come together to clean up the community. - 02 Jul 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ellan Lustosa/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10700078t) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, July 2, 2020 HYGIENIZATION With the increase in the number of covid-19 deaths in the city, residents of the Santa Marta favela, Botafogo, south zone, increase the number of sanitizations in the community this Thursday, COVID-19; SANITATION; BRAZIL; Favela residents come together to clean up the community. - 02 Jul 2020

    Human rights in focus
    Police killing hundreds in Rio de Janeiro despite court ban on favela raids

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