Eliesio Marubo: “Brazilian politics has given no importance to the Indigenous movement’s agenda”

Written on 09 January 2023. Posted in News

BY MARIA ALCANTARA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

After his involvement in the search for indigenist, Bruno Pereira, and British journalist, Dom Phillips, the legal representative of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Yavari Valley (Univaja) spoke about the new landscape that is emerging with the arrival of Lula Da Silva to power, the creation of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and the return of political dialogue. The Marubo lawyer narrates the violence being experienced in the north-west of the Brazilian Amazon and explains the protection mechanisms developed in the Indigenous territories given the absence of a State presence in recent years.

Continue Reading

Nemo Andi: "We have been speaking the truth about all that is happening in the Amazon, the jungle and the Ecuadorian coast"

Written on 23 December 2022. Posted in News

The head of the Women and Health of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) participated in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. As a member of a confederation that brings together 11 nationalities and 23 organizations of the Amazon region, the Waorani leader explains that this instrument allows Indigenous Peoples to make their reality and the abuses they suffer known.

Photo: ONU Mujeres

Continue Reading

The International CHT Commission is deeply concerned over continued violence upon the Mro community; calls for effective action to ensure justice, safety, and human rights of the victims

Written on 03 January 2023. Posted in News

Press Statement

3 January 2023

The International CHT Commission (CHTC) is grimly disturbed to learn that Lama Rubber Industries Limited has perpetrated another arson attack upon the Mro indigenous community in Rengyan Mro Para of Lama, Bandarban.

Continue Reading

Indigenous Peoples, public policies and elections in Brazil

Written on 23 December 2022. Posted in News

BY MIRIAN POTIGUARA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

The country owes a great internal, social and historical debt: the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples. Reparations began to be made for this reality with the 1988 Constitution, a series of public policies aimed at recognition of their rights and the demarcation of Indigenous Lands. In recent years, however, faced with the setbacks experienced under the government of Jair Bolsonaro, the Indigenous movement has opted for resistance, organization and political participation through candidacies. The State needs to be aware that the Indigenous struggle is focused on historical reparation.

Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

Continue Reading