Indigenous human rights in Brazil - SALSA Letter to Dilma Rousseff Our letter denouncing the systemic disregard for indigenous human rights in Brazil was delivered and officially registered in Brasilia on Tuesday, February 23 2016. Carbondale, Illinois, USA, 18 February 2016 Dilma Rousseff Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil Gabinete...
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CALL FOR PAPERS: “Indigenous Brazil” The Federal Constitution of 1988, a juridical symbol of the Brazilian state's process of re-democratization, also promoted a significant alteration in the conceptual and juridical paradigm of indigenous politics in Brazil. Amongst the established rights and guarantees for Indigenous Peoples, cultural specificities, the right to historically occupied...
Read MoreBoycott of Products of the Agribusiness In Mato Grosso do Sul The state of Mato Grosso do Sul has the second largest indigenous population in Brazil – about 77,000 people – and is the scenario of some of the biggest and worst Human Rights violations in...
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Situation of the Guarani Kaiowa and Ñandéva in Mato Grosso do Sul - ABA statement Immediate action or genocide permitted by the Brazilian State Given the sequence of actions by armed groups against Guarani Kaiowa and Guarani Ñandéva communities in Mato Grosso do Sul over the last...
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Illegal gold miners take over FUNAI base and airstrip near isolated Yanomami settlement in Brazil The Hutukara Yanomami Association denounced the takeover by illegal gold miners of an abandoned FUNAI base and airstrip in the vicinity of an isolated Yanomami village along the upper Catrimani River...
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Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples - Summer course in Brazil Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples - Summer course in Brazil. Explore tropical forest ecology, the conservation of Amazonia, and the role of the indigenous groups, such as the Kayapó, in the Brazilian Amazon. The Amazon basin...
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