BRASILIA: A lopsided majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an effort to restrict native peoples' rights to protected reservations ...
Brazilian Xokleng Indigenous people celebrate after a majority on Brazil's Supreme Court voted against the so-called legal thesis of 'Marco Temporal' , in Brasilia, Brazil September 21, 2023. REUTERSPIX: A lopsided majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an effort to restrict native peoples' rights to protected reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners.
“Justice is on the side of Indigenous peoples,“ said Joenia Wapichana, the head of the government’s Indigenous affairs agency, FUNAI.The so-called “time-frame argument” at the center of the case held that Indigenous peoples should not have the right to protected reservations on lands where they were not present in 1988, when the country’s current constitution was ratified.
He presided over a surge in destruction in the Brazilian Amazon during his presidency, when average annual deforestation increased by more than 75 percent from the previous decade. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in elections last year, has resumed creating Indigenous reservations since taking office in January, and also created Brazil's first ministry of Indigenous affairs.
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