Tag: demarcation

Amazon’s Uncontacted Kawahiva People Face Annihilation

On UN Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Survival International is calling for the full demarcation and ...

20 Years Late, Brazil Still Can’t Follow the Constitution and Give Indians Their Land

In order to reconcile the interests of Brazilian Indians with those of farmers in ...

More than 50 Brazilian Indians Killed in Land Disputes. Bishops Blame Government.

At least 53 Brazilian Indians were murdered in 2013 as a direct or indirect ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court Ends Indians’ 34-Year Fight for Land

After a 34-year-old struggle by a group of Brazilian Indians and four days of ...

Brazil Bishop Who Suppports Indian Land Demarcation Gets Death Threats

Dom Manoel João Francisco, the Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, has recently been receiving ...

Santa Catarina, Brazil, Indian child

Brazilian Anti-Indian Groups Threaten Bloodshed Against Land Demarcation

Two notes issued at end of last month by Brazil's Indianist Missionary Council (Cimi) ...

Brazil Spends More with Indians, But They Still Have No Voice

An analysis of specific actions in favor of indigenous peoples in the Brazilian budget ...

Brazil’s Indian Agency Agrees With Farmers That Indians Have Too Much Land

In an article published by the Reuters news agency, the president of Funai, Mércio ...

Brazil’s Human Rights Secretary Urges Federal Court to Review Eviction of 700 Indians

According to Brazil’s special secretary of Human Rights, Paulo Vannuchi, the federal government hopes ...

Brazilian Indians Reoccupy Lands. Farmers React with Death Threats and Lynching Attempt

Two weeks ago, the Maxakali indigenous people reoccupied their lands in rural areas in ...