Tag: indians
Brazil Votes in Favor of UN’s Declaration on Indian Rights
The UN Human Rights Council approved on June 29 the Declaration on the Rights ...
Brazil Needs Affirmative Action for Blacks, Indians and Gypsies, Says Minister
Brazilian society has a cultural debt with blacks, Indians, and gypsies, and reparation requires ...
Brazil’s Potiguara and Tumbalalí¡ Indians Protest Against Demarcation Delay
Earlier this month, two indigenous peoples from the Brazilian Northeast were mobilized to sort ...
Brazil’s Push to Protect Biodiversity Involves Indians and Slaves Descendants
The purpose of the commission created last week, as part of the Week of ...
Indians and Squatters Block Federal Highway in Brazil
The Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), a state in the North of Brazil, reported ...
Government’s Conference on Indians Has No Legitimacy, Say Brazilian Indians
The 550 indigenous leaders gathered in the 2006 Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) ...
Lack of Land Is Major Reason for High Mortality Among Brazilian Indians
The Brazilian Indianist Missionary Council (CIMI) registered the murders of 38 Indians last year ...
Confessed Murderer of Indian Released from Jail in Brazil
The man who confessed to the murder of Dorvalino Rocha, a Guarani Kaiowá leader ...
Death Threats Are Part of Daily Life for Brazil’s Human Rights Activists
The UN rapporteur for human rights, Hina Jilani, recently visited Brazil to become more ...
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 ...