The Brazilian Supreme Court this week took up a case that could define new rules for setting the boundaries of Indigenous lands, effectively eliminating the period of time that guarantees the right to land for all Indigenous peoples. More than 6,000 Indigenous people from more than 170 ethnic groups camped in front of the Supreme Court to follow the trial. All of this while other laws are aimed at opening up Indigenous territories to extractive industry.
Last week, Indigenous peoples symbolically demarcated the plaza outside of the court building, Praça dos Três Poderes. “521 years in Brazil, 32 years of the constitution, and we continue to witness the neglect of the most basic rights of the Indigenous peoples,” said APIB - Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil in a statement to Re:wild. “How long will this equation continue to take away the rights, lands and lives of #IPovosIndígenas? We call for an end to the impunity!”
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