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Indigenous Groups March in Brasilia Against Land Rights Violations
About 7,000 Indigenous people from 200 groups joined the annual encampment to oppose land-rights violations and resource projects.
- About 7,000 Indigenous people from 200 groups gathered in Brasilia on Tuesday for the 22nd annual Free Land Encampment, protesting land rights violations by farming, logging, and mining interests.
- Dinamam Tuxá, head of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, said lawmakers have advanced bills weakening land protections, prompting the movement's theme: "Our future is not for sale, and the answer is us."
- Research by MapBiomas found Indigenous territories lost just 1% of native vegetation over three decades, compared with 20% on private land, demonstrating their effectiveness in curbing Amazon deforestation.
- Alessandra Korap, winner of the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize, said unified Indigenous action is powerful: "when Indigenous peoples from across Brazil stand united, no one dares to approach us."
- Renata Vieira of the Instituto Socioambiental warned that Congress remains hostile to Indigenous rights, with lawmakers advancing bills to authorize mining on territories despite President Lula revoking some concessions in February.
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Thousands of indigenous activists from Brazil settled in Brasilia on Sunday for an annual meeting in the capital until Friday to assert the rights they claim on their ancestral lands.
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Thousands of indigenous activists from Brazil settled in Brasilia on Sunday for an annual meeting scheduled until Friday.
·Montreal, Canada
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April 7, 2026.- The mobilization, convened in the framework of Camp Tierra Libre 2026, which organizes the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (AGDP), will start at 9:00, local time, under the slogan “Embetical Congress of the Peoples: our future is not for sale” and will be directed towards the...
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