Brazil’s Air Force intercepts plane over Yanomami Indigenous Territory
São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil’s Air Force on Monday intercepted an unidentified aircraft that was flying in airspace over the Yanomami Indigenous Land, a protected...
Category : Indigenous Lands
Brazil announces permanent military presence in embattled Yanomami Indigenous Territory
São Paulo, Brazil — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced last week that Brazil’s security forces would establish a permanent presence in the Yanomami...
Brazil’s Congress overturns Lula’s veto on bill that weakens Indigenous land rights
São Paulo, Brazil – In a major setback for Brazil’s Indigenous, as well as for the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the...
Yanomami Indigenous people denounce return of miners to their territory in northern Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil – Indigenous associations representing the Yanomami people in northern Brazil are denouncing the return of land grabbers to the territory, nine months...
Brazil goes after land grabbers in Amazon Indigenous lands
São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil is carrying out an operation to remove land grabbers and illegal miners from the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous lands...
Centuries of indigenous presence in the Amazon defy legal attempts to limit the rights of Brazil’s native peoples
São Paulo, Brazil – A study made by Brazilian researchers and published on October 5 in the renowned scientific journal Science, one of the world’s...
Brazil’s Senate limits Indigenous land rights; President Lula expected to veto law
São Paulo, Brazil – Last week, Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected a proposed regulation by politicians backed by agribusinesses that would have severely limited new demarcations...
