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April

SALSA DECLARATION ON FICO AND A’UWẼ (XAVANTE) RIGHTS TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT (4-4-26)

April 4, 2026

A’uwẽ leader Silvério Tsereburã Tserenhibru (1988-2025) speaks emphatically against FICO in a meeting with government authorities and INFRA S.A. representatives hours before his untimely death. Photo: Ana Ferraz, 2025. SALSA DECLARATION ON FICO AND A’UWẼ (XAVANTE) RIGHTS TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT This declaration compliments the...

April

SAMPLE EMAIL ACCOMPANYING THE SALSA DECLARATION ON FICO AND A’UWẼ (XAVANTE) RIGHTS TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT (4-4-26)

April 4, 2026

In PIAC, Public Issues News, SALSA Action Statements, SALSA's News Archive, Translated PIAC Statements

By Theodor Borrmann

SAMPLE EMAIL ACCOMPANYING THE SALSA DECLARATION ON FICO AND A’UWẼ (XAVANTE) RIGHTS TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT The sample email text below is provided as a potential model for individual communications to the relevant Brazilian authorities. Communications can be sent to President Lula, the Minister of...

February

SALSA letter supporting A’uwẽ (Xavante) demands for FPIC (2-20-26)

February 22, 2026

In Public Issues News, SALSA Action Statements, SALSA's News Archive

By Theodor Borrmann

Xavante leaders express objection to FICO at FUNAI in Brasília: Photo: Helen Lourdes, Cimi, February 2026. SALSA LETTER SUPPORTING A’UWẼ (XAVANTE) DEMANDS FOR FPIC SALSA’s letter supporting A’uwẽ (Xavante) demands for FPIC in relation to FICO (Central-West Integration Railway) and all planned infrastructure projects in A’uwẽ lands, was...

August

Amazon fires in Brazil: open letter (8.26.19)

August 26, 2019

In Public Issues News, SALSA Action Statements, SALSA's News Archive

By SALSA

Open Letter Regarding the Recent Amazon Fires in Brazil Amazon fires' explosion is not natural, and this year’s record-breaking conflagration is not new. Indigenous peoples have managed fire in an ecologically sustainable fashion for millennia. But since Brazil began to encourage agricultural colonization in the region...

August

Crimes against Pemón Indigenous Peoples: Letter to Venezuelan Government (8.04.19)

August 4, 2019

In Public Issues News, SALSA Action Statements, SALSA's News Archive

By SALSA

Letter to the Venezuelan Government Regarding Crimes against Pemón Indigenous Peoples The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international organization of academic experts on the peoples and environments of the region, strongly condemns the crimes against Pemón indigenous people by security forces of...

Indigenous human rights in Brazil - SALSA Letter to Dilma Rousseff

February

Indigenous human rights in Brazil – Letter to Dilma Rousseff (2.18.16)

February 26, 2016

In SALSA Action Statements, SALSA's News Archive

By SALSA

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...