Higgins hits out at new Brazil law as 'crime against humanity'

Bill 490 would pave the way for the likes of roads, dams, logging, and other industry to begin on mostly unspoiled Amazonian lands

President Michael D Higgins said the bill is 'the single biggest disaster threatening the international climate change movement'.

President Michael D Higgins has condemned Brazilian legislators who passed a bill to limit the recognition of new indigenous reservations as a "crime against humanity".

Bill 490, which was passed by the mostly conservative lower house of congress in Brazil this week, would pave the way for the likes of roads, dams, logging, and other industry to begin on mostly unspoiled Amazonian lands.