Pamela Fernandes granted her five-year-old daughter's wish for a bigger-kiss-than-usual before she left the house. She never thought it would be the last. Her daughter, Emmanuele Vitoria, was one of 19 people killed on 5 November 2015, when the devastating Mariana dam collapse caused a torrent of mud to tear through the quiet town of Bento Rodrigues in the southeast Brazilian mountains. Nine years later, Ms. Fernandes, 30, is one of 620,000 people pursuing justice in the UK High Court, in what is said to be the biggest group action the British court system has ever seen.
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is the subject of a £36bn claim, a long-awaited bid for partial justice after indigenous communities and nearby villages saw their lives ravaged by Brazil's worst-ever environmental disaster. The dam collapse inflicted devastation onto the town of Bento Rodrigues, covering the district in mud and making it uninhabitable.
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