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October 16, 2023

How Pivotal Is a Brazil Ruling on Indigenous Rights?

Brazil’s Supreme Court (pictured) last month ruled against an attempt to limit the creation of new Indigenous territories. // File Photo: Everton137 via Creative Commons.

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Mark S. Langevin, senior advisor at Horizon Engage: “The Supreme Court’s ruling quashes the rural congressional caucus’ efforts to erode Indigenous communities’ constitutional right to claim legal demarcation of their traditional territories. Under the 1988 federal constitution, these communities have relied on legal instruments to demarcate and control their ancestral homes in the face of land grabbing and violence by illicit agricultural and extractive industry groups. More than a thousand registered rural holdings overlap with claimed Indigenous lands, and there are nearly…”

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