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Montevideo, April 29th 2025 - 09:26 UTC

Tag: Indigenous Free Land Camp

  • Monday, April 7th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Indigenous groups ready for week-long protest in Brasilia

    The indigenous groups will also try to persuade COP30 attendees that they are part of the solution to gas emmissions

    Some 10,000 indigenous people from across Brazil are expected to stage the 21st edition of the Free Land Camp (ATL) in Brasília between April 7 and 11 to advocate for land demarcation and oppose the Temporal Framework, which restricts demarcation rights to territories occupied by 1988. Indigenous leaders reject mining proposals and highlight the harmful impacts on communities like the Yanomami.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 20:00 UTC

    Brazilian Constitution to be translated into indigenous languages

    Indigenous communities are staging their yearly Free Land Camp protest in Brasilia this week

    Brazilian authorities announced this week that the Constitution of South America's largest country, originally penned in Portuguese, would be translated into the languages of the indigenous tribes in a move to fully bring that part of the population into the rule of law, Agencia Brasil reported.