Ellen Nemitz

Brazil

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Journalist reporting on the environment, science, human rights and politics. Features on @fairplanet, @BBC_Future, @o_eco and others | Former @soljourno mentee

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Articles

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Nov 18, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Ellen Nemitz

Many areas of Brazil have been hit with severe droughts and floods in recent years; scientists say climate change is increasing the incidence of extreme weather events. Forests protect against erosion and pollution and help store water in soil and aquifers, buoying water security.
The high price of safety and land rights for Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples

Oct 24, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz

Farmers have waged a real low-intensity war against Indigenous people in this region, which is known for agribusiness, wrote Brasilia-based organisation CIMI in its draft report, seen by FairPlanet. In the states of Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul, the threat of violence is preventing children from going to school or playing freely, and there are limited food and water supplies.
Conservative congress threatens Brazil’s same-sex marriage wins

Oct 13, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz

The amount is 268 per cent higher than in 2013, when the National Council of Justice (CNJ) issued Resolution n. 175/2013, obliging registry offices to perform marriages between same-sex couples.
What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Sep 19, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Ellen Nemitz

Brazil produces around 7 million tons of plastic products a year, 44% of which are disposable and single-use plastics, common in food packaging; a significant amount of it ends up in one of Brazil’s 3,000 dumps.
O que a indústria de alimentos vai fazer com a questão das embalagens plásticas?

Aug 15, 2024 | brasil.mongabay.com | Ellen Nemitz |Rhett Butler

O Brasil produz cerca de 7 milhões de toneladas de produtos plásticos por ano, sendo 44% de plásticos descartáveis e de uso único, comum nas embalagens de alimentos; boa parte deles termina em um dos 3 mil lixões existentes no Brasil.
The initiative empowering Latin America’s female land defenders

Jul 23, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz

"A pioneering legal instrument for environmental protection, but also a human rights treaty." This is how the NGO La Ruta del Clima, based in Costa Rica, describes the Escazú Agreement.
Fashion crimes: How cotton crops may be harming a Brazilian biome

May 4, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz

The fashion industry has been under increasing pressure to adopt more sustainable practices, with the volume of clothes produced, purchased, and discarded threatening the environment. And if the final destination of a new piece of clothing wasn't a problem enough, the cotton used to manufacture it might also be dirty.
Brazil’s indigenous peoples fight for legal rights

Apr 17, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Katarzyna Rybarczyk

Before the arrival of Europeans, more than three million indigenous people lived in the territory of current-day Brazil. However, by 2010, only approximately 817,000 remained, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), mostly due to genocide at the hands of Europeans. The most recent data, however, shows a slight increase in this number to 1,652,876 indigenous people of more than 300 ethnicities, a sign of the resistance.
Between cultures, within nations: the different forms of statelessness

Apr 17, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Katarzyna Rybarczyk

As there is no stretch of land that is not considered part of a country, every human being has a country of birth. Even Antarctica, the only continent not consistently inhabited by humans, is governed by twelve states. And yet, millions of people are not considered nationals of any country and have a status of statelessness.
Living in limbo: stateless Haitians in the Dominican Republic

Apr 17, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Valkyria Rattmann

Zacarías Toussaint is a 26 year-old man born and raised in the Dominican Republic. He has never left the country, not even for tourism. Nevertheless, the country in which he grew up does not consider him one of its citizens. Born to Haitian parents, Toussaint is stateless, and so are his two older sisters. He claims that, in spite of that, treatment differs according to the migrants' social class.