Mining giant Vale on Friday played down fears that its planned expansion of a railway line in the Brazilian Amazon will harm the already vulnerable Awa tribe. Survival International, a leading advocate for the rights of tribal people worldwide, on Thursday said that Vale’s plans to extend its Carajas railway…
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