For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance

As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend their lands and their future. They are watching rising temperatures, vanishing food sources, devastating wildfires and the accelerating loss of ancestral territory – but they are also claiming new space online, using social media, music, photography and dance as tools of resistance.Ahead of the UN day celebrating the world’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, three young Indigenous leaders shared how they are using their voices – and their creativity – to reach millions of people.Among them are dancer and entrepreneur Marciele Albuquerque, from the Munduruku people; singer-songwriter Kaê Guajajara, from the Guajajara people; and photographer and communicator Cristian Wariu, from the Xavante people. All three are members of the UN’s Verified initiative, which works to counter climate-related misinformation.© UNICEF/Paulo DiogenesCommunities in Brazil are suffering from erratic temperatures and a lack of water.‘The forest no longer provides’Marciele grew up in Juruti, in the Brazilian Amazon, where childhood meant swimming in rivers and gathering fruit ...