{"id":26872,"date":"2023-09-29T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2023-09-29T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:56:12","slug":"brazils-senate-approves-a-controversial-bill-in-a-major-setback-for-indigenous-land-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/29\/brazils-senate-approves-a-controversial-bill-in-a-major-setback-for-indigenous-land-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article written by Hannah Harland was first posted by The Canary and highlights the assaults of agribusiness on indigenous land rights rights in Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRAZIL’S SENATE APPROVES A CONTROVERSIAL BILL IN MAJOR SETBACK FOR INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Less than a week after celebrations of a key victory in Brazil\u2019s supreme court, the country experienced a major setback for Indigenous rights.<\/p>\n

On 21 September, Brazil\u2019s supreme court judges\u00a0came out with a majority against<\/a>\u00a0a regressive piece of Indigenous land rights legislation. However, Brazil\u2019s senate has now approved this same bill, which limits Indigenous people\u2019s rights to ancestral lands.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Indigenous demonstrators had rallied in Brasilia as the court weighed the legality of the so-called \u2018time limit trick\u2019. Specifically, the policy states that:<\/p>\n

Indigenous peoples in Brazil who could not prove they were living on their land on October 5, 1988 (the date of the signing of the current Constitution) had no right to have those lands demarcated (officially mapped out and protected<\/em><\/p>\n

In spite of strong Indigenous opposition and the supreme court\u2019s ruling, the senate passed the new bill. The legislation sailed through on 27 September with 43 votes for and 21 against.<\/p>\n

\u2018Time limit trick\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indigenous groups\u00a0have said<\/a>\u00a0that the legislation violates their rights. In particular, they highlighted that many groups were forced from their ancestral lands during European settler colonisation. For example, armed militias\u00a0violently evicted<\/a>\u00a0the Xokleng tribe for European colonists in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The time limit trick would prevent the Xokleng tribe from claiming land rights for these ancestral territories.<\/p>\n

The legal instrument will also impact Indigenous groups who were displaced from their lands during the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from the 1960s to 1980s.<\/p>\n

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