The classes were cancelled for everyone, and I went home.”Ī classroom at a school located in the municipality of Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso, looking out on the plantations immediately beside the school grounds. I started vomiting many times, until I had thrown up all I had in my stomach and was just retching. Carina suffered acute poisoning while attending school in 2017: “I started feeling sick, nauseous…. Among her symptoms, Irupe experienced dizziness, headache, and vomiting.Ĭarina, a women in her mid-30s who studies at a school in the municipality of Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso, stands near a cotton plantation. They told Human Rights Watch that the most recent incident of poisoning was in early 2018, when they felt spray from a tractor spraying pesticides in the nearby plantation. Irupe and Pinon, both in their 40s, live in a community a few hours’ drive from Campo Grande, the capital city of Mato Grosso do Sul in mid-west Brazil. © 2018 Marizilda Cruppé for Human Rights Watch “We’ve registered several complaints at the civil police station and military police,” he said.
Bernardo told Human Rights Watch that he feels powerless against aerial spraying of pesticides. Bernardo, a man in his 30s, was born in a quilombo (Afro-Brazilian) community of around 60, men, women, and children in Minas Gerais State, southeast Brazil.
