61. Indigenous Peoples Living In Voluntary Isolation Draft Declaration on the Rights of indigenous People Permanent Forum on indigenousIssues Commissioner for Human Rights International Labour http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/story.asp?storyID=200

62. Embassy Of Brazil Legal Framework of the Demarcation Process of indigenous Lands in Brazil. The landrights of indigenous peoples in Brazil are regulated by Article 231 of http://www.brasilemb.org/social_issues/demarcation_indigenous_land.shtml

Legal Framework of the Demarcation Process of Indigenous Lands in Brazil The land rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil are regulated by Article 231 of the Federal Constitution of 1988. The caput of this Article reads: it is recognized to Indigenous peoples their social organization, their customs, languages, beliefs and traditions and the original rights over lands they traditionally occupy, belonging to the Union to demarcate them, to protect and enforce respect for all their assets. According, to the constitutional concept, demarcating indigenous peoples lands is Union's obligation. The very action and the circumstances of demarcation are established by law and they are demarcated through Administrative means. Therefore, all juridical acts having as their object areas that had been declared to be of Indian occupation were nullified and their juridical effects extinct, regardless of any indemnity. The only possible indemnity was the right for compensation arising, from improvements on the land made in good faith.

63. OneWorld U.S. Home / In Depth / Sviluppo / Terra - Brazilian Indigenous Groups P brazilian indigenous Groups Press their Case at OAS Eighty indigenous homeshave been destroyed, and 71 people were illegally arrested. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/82682/1/2081

OneWorld U.S. Home In Depth Sviluppo Terra Search for OneWorld.net OneWorld Africa OneWorld Austria OneWorld Canada OneWorld Finland OneWorld Italy OneWorld Latin America OneWorld Netherlands OneWorld South Asia OneWorld Spain OneWorld SouthEast Europe OneWorld United Kingdom OneWorld United States AIDSChannel Digital Opportunity Kids Channel LearningChannel TODAY'S NEWS IN DEPTH PARTNERS GET INVOLVED ... OUR NETWORK Mon., Sep. 19, 2005 Unimondo Italiano Write to Us About OneWorld Contact Us Brazilian Indigenous Groups Press their Case at OAS Environment News Service (ENS) WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2004 (ENS) - Brazil’s first female indigenous lawyer makes her legal debut today in Washington, DC. Joenia Batista de Carvalho, 30, a Wapixana woman who is one of this year's Reebok Human Rights awardees, is presenting her people's land rights case to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights. On behalf of the Indigenous Council of Roraima, she will ask this branch of the Organization of American States to intervene in a landmark battle for ancestral indigenous land known as Raposa Serra do Sol. The Rainforest Foundation US is co-filing the petition with the Indigenous Council of Roraima. Batista's work is fully supported by the U.S. branch of The Rainforest Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in New York City, London, and Oslo founded in 1989 by Sting and Trudie Styler.

64. Taking Back Their Land - Brazil’s Indigenous Movement Wins Key Electoral Victor indigenous peoples in Brazil resource site from the Instituto Socioambientalhttp//www.socioambiental.org/pib/indexenglish.htm. add your comments http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1706278.php

About us Contact us Subscribe Calendar ... chat indybay indy.us www.indy all Listen Live stream from Enemy Combatant Radio. Local Indymedia newspaper IMC Space ... Help support grassroots independent media. $33.00 donated in past month IMC Network indymedia.org africa ambazonia canarias estrecho / madiaq nigeria ... south africa canada hamilton maritimes montreal ontario ... winnipeg east asia burma japan manila qc europe alacant andorra antwerpen athens ... west vlaanderen latin america argentina bolivia brasil chiapas ... valparaiso oceania adelaide aotearoa brisbane burma ... sydney south asia india mumbai united states arizona arkansas atlanta austin ... worcester west asia beirut israel palestine process discussion fbi/legal updates indymedia faq mailing lists ... volunteer projects print radio satellite tv video regions oceania united states topics biotech printable version email this article Taking Back Their Land - Brazil’s Indigenous Movement Wins Key Electoral Victorie by Fault Lines Article - John Reardon Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 at 12:02 PM Taking Back Their Land - Brazil’s Indigenous Movement Wins Key Electoral Victories By John Reardon Brazil's municipal elections on October 3 have brought an unprecedented electoral feat for the nation's indigenous communities. The first ever indigenous mayor was elected in the state of Amazonas, where inhabitants are primarily native peoples; the primarily Xakraibá community of the state of Minas Gerais elected its first indigenous mayor to the town of São João das Missões, and other mayoral and local posts were secured by indigenous leaders in the states of Paraiba and Roraima.

65. Amazonia Towards the end of March this year, indigenous peoples throughout the country 5 million indigenous people during the 500 years of the history of Brazil! http://www.amazonia.net/Articles/393.htm

Brazil: The same as 500 years ago? - April 2000 Brazil: the same as 500 years ago? WRM Bulletin 33, April 2000 Five hundred years ago, Portuguese conquistadores in shining armour used their modern weapons against indigenous peoples armed with bows and arrows. Now, police in shining riot gear used their modern weapons against unarmed civilians including indigenous, black and white people protesting against the official celebration of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500. The photographs are self explanatory (see photos at http://www.wrm.org.uy/english/tropical_forests/photospataxo2.html ). The reason? Again the "indians". Towards the end of March this year, indigenous peoples throughout the country left their villages and began to travel in the direction of Porto Seguro, the place where Brazil was allegedly "discovered", thus going in the opposite direction of the one taken in 1500 by the European colonizers. Within an atmosphere of expectation, on April 15 most of them gathered together at Monte Pascoal, the National Park re-taken last year by the Pataxo, which then became a strong symbol of the struggle of all the indigenous peoples of the country, where still more than half of their lands have not yet been demarcated. More than 1500 indigenous people joined the 22 Pataxo families and celebrated the meeting with rituals, songs and speeches, giving their total support to the struggle of the Pataxo. On April 7th, they all headed for the village of Coroa Vermelha, in Pataxo territory, distant some 200 kilometres from Monte Pascoal and near the site of the "discovery": Porto Seguro. More than 30 buses which were carrying them were stopped by the first of many police blockades set up by the government to assure "public security", involving more than 5000 military police. The buses were only allowed to continue as a result of the direct intervention of the country's General Attorney. Having finally arrived at Coroa Vermelha, on the following day they opened the Indigenous Conference 2000, counting with the presence of 2500 representatives from 186 different indigenous peoples from all over the country, thus being the largest indigenous meeting held in the whole history of Brazil.

66. Amazonia When Brazil became an independent state, the situation of indigenous peoples did Last August 19, the Pataxo indigenous people, who live in the southern http://www.amazonia.net/Articles/344.htm

Brazil: Pataxo recover traditional lands - WRM August 1999 Brazil: Pataxo recover traditional lands WRM Bulletin 26 August 1999 Brazil will soon celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese. Nevertheless, for the indigenous peoples living in what later became Brazil, this is not a day for celebration. The arrival of the Europeans meant the beginning of their genocide and the destruction of the environment in the rich land of the "pau Brazil". When Brazil became an independent state, the situation of indigenous peoples did not improve and in many cases became even worse. The Federal Constitution of 1988 finally recognized the indigenous peoples' cultural and territorial rights, but they are in fact more often than not ignored. Last August 19, the Pataxo indigenous people, who live in the southern region of the state of Bahia, decided to recover Monte Pascoal National Park, which is part of their traditional territory. The presence of the Pataxo in the region was already documented in year 1500 and later by several historical testimonies from 1805 on. They had lived in that area until 1951 when they were victims of a massacre. The survivors were expelled from their land and confined in areas where they lived in misery and humiliation. This was yet another dark episode in Brazilian history which, as many others where the victims were black slaves or landless peasants, was soon hidden and forgotten. The Pataxo's traditional territory was later transformed into Monte Pascoal National Park, allegedly with the aim of protecting the Mata Atlantica forest.

67. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES-BRAZIL: ''Lula Frustrated Our Expectations'' indigenous peoplesBRAZIL Lula frustrated our expectations Q How doyou think the situation of Brazil s indigenous communities especially in http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=28862

68. New Page 1 International Decade of the World s indigenous People brazilian indigenouslands cover 947011 sq km, which corresponds to more than 11% of our national http://www.un.int/brazil/speech/02d-mlrv-57agnu-indigenas-2110.htm

Third Committee - Item 106 - "Programme of Activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People" Statement by Mrs. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti Minister Plenipotentiary of the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN New York, 21 October 2002 Mr. Chairman, Brazil reaffirms its support to the implementation of the Programme of Activities of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People and welcomes the Secretary General’s report A/57/395 The establishment of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which held its first historic session last May, has put this important topic in its rightful place in the international agenda. The Forum will be a catalyst for a broad-based partnership, involving governments, specialized agencies of the UN system, other relevant international and regional organizations, indigenous peoples as well as civil society at large. The unique and innovative features of the Forum will allow its members to offer a decisive contribution to the realization of indigenous rights and to the sustainable development of their communities. Given the importance of its work and the wide scope of its mandate - provide expert advice and recommendations on indigenous issues, raise awareness and promote the integration and coordination of indigenous activities in the UN system, disseminate information on indigenous issues -, it is essential to ensure as a matter of urgency that a firm and predictable institutional basis be put in place to support the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We have already agreed that a secretariat within the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat in New York will assist the Forum in carrying out its mandate.

69. MM March 1996 brazilian indigenous and environmental groups and international This legislationrecognized the inalienable right of indigenous people to their http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0396.03.html

Brazil's "Genocide Decree" ON JANUARY 8, 1996, Brazil 's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed into law Decree 1775, dubbed the "Genocide Decree" by human rights activists. The new decree reverses the tenets of existing laws that protect indigenous people by allowing commercial interests to protest the demarcation of land as indigenous territory. Brazilian indigenous and environmental groups and international indigenous rights organizations charge that the new law will undermine the rights of indigenous people to their traditional lands as guaranteed in Brazil's constitution, and could strip local communities of control of the natural resources on which they depend. Furthermore, they say, formal challenges by commercial interests to demarcation decisions will compromise the already slow process of establishing additional indigenous reserves and may call into question the legitimacy of existing ones. "Decree 1775 is more than a setback; it's a death sentence for many indigenous groups," said the Brazil-based Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon. Alarmed by the serious situation facing indigenous groups in Brazil, the Organization of American States (OAS) is already compiling a report to President Cardoso's government that directs the state to respect human rights. And the international groups that form the Amazon Coalition have mounted a campaign to urge President Cardoso to revoke the Genocide Decree.

70. Center For Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley 215 indigenous peoples live in Brazil today, made up of around 325 thousand The majority of these 215 indigenous peoples in Brazil correspond to http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/fall1999/10-28-99-ferreiradasilva/

Marcio Ferreira da Silva Indigenous Education in Brazil: Native American Peoples and the Right to Education October 28, 1999 Marcio Ferreira da Silva is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Vice Chair of the Graduate Program of Social Anthropology at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. The following is the text of his presentation. Good Afternoon. I would like, first of all, to apologize for my English. I would also like to welcome all those present and thank the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of California at Berkeley for their invitation to present some data and points of view on the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Schooling in Brazil. I would also like to thank the Brazilian Consulate General in San Francisco for its interest and support in this undertaking. I am going to give a general introduction to the subject, starting from the present state of indigenous peoples in Brazil and the historic evolution of educational policies affecting these peoples. This presentation also aims to offer an overview of the present state of indigenous schools and a few thoughts regarding their legal, administrative and political advances and frustrations.

71. Brazil News 24/7 - Nothing But Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - Fresh News Daily - En Englishlanguage magazine dealing with brazilian politics, economy, behavior, Since January 3, indigenous people have been occupying the headquarters of http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/1153/49/

Menu News January 2005 Brazilian Indians Invade Indigenous Foundation Monday, 19 September 2005 Main Menu Menu News Back Issues Advertising ... Old Issues BrazzilMag Newsfeed Who's Online We have 19219 guests online Latest News Statistics Members: News: WebLinks: User Menu Your Details Submit News Check-In My Items Login Form Username Password Remember me Forgotten your password? No account yet? Create one Related Items Brazil's College Quota: 10% for Poor and Blacks Indians from Brazil Against Piracy of Their Culture Brazil Wants Indians in College Malaria and Malnutrition Plague Brazilian Indians ... Court Rules Brazil's Guarani Indians Can Stay on Reoccupied Lands var site="sm5brazzil" Brazzil Magazine All Brazil, All the Time Brazilian Indians Invade Indigenous Foundation Written by Cimi Monday, 17 January 2005 Since January 3, indigenous people have been occupying the headquarters of the Funai (Fundação Nacional do Índio - National Indigenous Foundation) in Manaus in the state of Amazonas to request the demarcation of indigenous lands under Funai’s jurisdiction. They are also asking for the substitution of the current manager of the foundation, Benedito Rangel de Moraes.

72. Amnesty International Canada - Take Action The indigenous peoples of Brazil Lands and Life Under Threat For hundredsof years, indigenous peoples in Brazil have been violently driven off their http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actBrazil_300305.php

Other browser / javascript disabled browser code here. Printer Friendly You are here: Home Take Action Good News Stories Letter Writing Tips ... Activist Toolkit Keep informed. Subscribe to Amnesty.ca Updates, our monthly online publication HTML Text Take Action The Indigenous Peoples of Brazil: Lands and Life Under Threat Successive Brazilian governments have failed to deliver on their international and constitutional obligations to fully and finally recognize and protect Indigenous land rights. This failure has meant that the lives of Indigenous peoples are in continual peril, from the severe economic and social deprivation felt by many communities, and from armed attacks. For these reasons, Amnesty International is concerned that the safety of Indigenous peoples in Brazil , and even their future survival, is at risk. TAKE ACTION Please send letters to the Brazilian Minister of Justice and the Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul: Express concern over the failure to address the persistent human rights issues that threaten the survival and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Brazil ; Addresses for Authorities: Bloco T Brasil Fax: + 55 61 322 6817 Exmo. Governador Estado de Mato Grosso

73. Amnesty International Canada - Indigenous News & Reports Brazil Safety and survival of indigenous peoples at risk. In the Guarani andKaiowá areas what happens? A lot of malnutrition. We have no land to plant on http://www.amnesty.ca/IndigenousPeoples/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=2349&

74. Save Our Earth - We Can Make A Difference! Grassroots efforts in Brazil coordinated by the indigenous Council of Roraima The state has one of the highest proportions of indigenous peoples in http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_enews.php?number=983

75. Anthropology People - Janet Chernela Dr. Chernela has conducted fieldwork among indigenous peoples in the BrazilianAmazon With indigenous women living in the urban center, Manaus, Brazil, http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/faculty/jchernela/

Contact Info: jchernela@anth.umd.edu Dr. Janet Chernela Janet Chernela received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983. She has taught in the graduate faculty of Florida International University, and as Adjunt Professor at Columbia University and Georgetown University. In addition, she served as Assistant to the Curator of South American Ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History in the preparation of a permanent hall on South American Indians and as Research Professor at INPA, the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. She joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2003. Dr. Chernela has conducted fieldwork among indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon for over twenty-five years and is author of the book, The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space as well as sixty articles on issues of indigenous peoples, conservation policy, gender, and language. Recent publications by Chernela discuss a grassroots community development project among riverine peoples at Silves, in the central Brazilian Amazon, a site to which Dr. Chernela has also led an overseas study program. Chernela has served as a consultant to NGOs, including Cultural Survival, the Nature Conservancy, Ford Foundation, and the Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership. Projects she proposed for international conservation NGOs include a restoration plan for lands devastated by gold mining in the Yanomami regions of Brazil; a resource management and tourism plan for seven indigenous groups on the Venezuela-Brazil border; and a study abroad program among the Kayapo Indians of Brazil. With indigenous women living in the urban center, Manaus, Brazil, Chernela was founder of AMARN, the Association for Women of the Upper Rio Negro, the first Amerindian women's association in Brazil and its longest-lived Brazilian indigenous organization.

76. Scarboro Missions — Justice And Peace News Across Brazil indigenous peoples have suffered systematic attacks and violencewith apparent Amnesty International USA on indigenous peoples in Brazil http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Justice_and_peace/JPO_news/indigenous_rights.php

@import url(Styles/homepage.css); @import url(Styles/sfm.css); @import url(Styles/sfm._mag.css); Learn About Us What We Do ... Site Map Justice and Peace News Time to Act for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Return to JPO News page An estimated 300 million indigenous or aboriginal peoples live spread around the world, from the Inuit in the Arctic to the Maori in New Zealand. Throughout the world they are among the poorest and most disadvantaged. Many remain dispossessed of their lands and are threatened or even killed when they defend their lands, territories and resources. Even in Canada the United Nations Human Rights Committee considers the indigenous situation as constituting "the major human rights issue facing Canadians." The United Nations proclaimed the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People in December 1994. A key goal of the Decade was the ratification of the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to improve international protection for indigenous peoples. The draft declaration consists of 45 articles covering rights and freedoms including protection against genocide and ethnocide; rights related to religions, languages and educational institutions; ownership or use of indigenous lands and natural resources; environmental protection; self-determination; as well as self-government or autonomy in matters relating to indigenous peoples’ internal affairs. However, consensus has been reached on only 2 of the Declaration's 45 articles. As the Decade draws to a close, there is concern that work on the draft Declaration will end as well.

77. Latinamerica Press: Article Our most recent articles related to indigenous peoples. LATIN AMERICA Thirty years of indigenous resistance in Brazil has also produced results. http://www.lapress.org/Article.asp?lanCode=1&actCode=5&actDesc=Indigenous people

78. SSRN-Indigenous Peoples And Sustainable Development Subprojects In Brazilian Ama SSRNindigenous peoples and Sustainable Development Subprojects in BrazilianAmazonia The Challenges of Catholic University of Brazil Brasilia Brazil http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=740678

79. Just Earth! Over the last three decades, indigenous peoples of Brazil have through indigenous people in Brazil continued to be abducted, tortured and killed for http://www.amnestyusa.org/justearth/indigenous_people/brazil.html

@import "/c/ai.css"; Amnesty International USA learn latest news countries ... students search Just Earth! Brazil "Our Intention is that one day we can live autonomously, taking care of ourselves... we want to fight to be able to survive quietly, peacefully, without needing help... Everything depends on the land." He was assassinated in May 1998. We are the land Amnesty International takes no side in disputes over land. What concerns the organization is the persistent failure of successive governments to protect the fundamental human rights of Brazil's Indigenous peoples. By failing to arbitrate promptly in disputes between the indigenous and non-indigenous community the state has left indigenous groups ever more vulnerable faced with escalating violence against them. The authorities at all levels have failed to protect the Indians effectively or to bring to justice those responsible for killing, abducting, harassing and threatening them. As a result, human rights abuses continue with impunity. Constitutional Rights to Land Still in the Balance Why the abuses continue In theory, there is extensive scope to protect Brazil's Indians from human rights abuse. International experts regard provisions in Brazil's 1988 Constitution, recognizing indigenous social and cultural traditions and upholding Indian land rights, to be among the most advanced in the world. Indians are given special protection in law. In recognition of the likely hostility between local economic interests and indigenous interests the implementation of indigenous policy has traditionally been a federal responsibility. All litigation arising from matters of ownership of indigenous areas falls within the competence of federal courts.

80. Globalinfo.org - LOG IN with Tierramérica about the challenges that Brazil s indigenous peoples face, Q How do you think the situation of Brazil s indigenous communities http://globalinfo.org/eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=37243

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