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Indigenous people arrive before Brazil's Supreme Court to await a decision on a key case on whether to restrict native peoples' rights to their ancestral lands. So far, five judges have voted to reject the so-called "time-frame argument", which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988, when the country's current constitution was ratified. IMAGES
Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes rally in the capital, Brasilia, as Brazil's Supreme Court weighs the legality of the so-called "time-frame argument," which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988. IMAGES
Women from various Indigenous communities protest in Brasilia as Brazil's Supreme Court discusses a seminal case over the scope of the constitution's protection of Indigenous land. IMAGES
Brasilia, Sep 1 (EFE).- Thousands of people gathered again on Wednesday outside Brazil's Supreme Court in Brasilia to call on the justices not to rule in favor of a cut-off date of 1988 for their land rights. (Camera: ALEX MIRKHAN).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN THE MARCH OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM ALL REGIONS OF BRAZIL TO FOLLOW THE JUDGEMENT THAT WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF THE DEMARCATION OF INDIGENOUS LANDS, IN BRASILIA, BRAZIL.
Lima, Sep 28 (EFE).- People from the indigenous communities arrived Tuesday at the Constitutional Court of Peru to protest the five years they have been waiting for a ruling on their lawsuit, where they claim to be the owners of thousands of hectares of Amazon rainforest razed by a company to grow oil palm. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO).SOUND BITES: LEADER OF SANTA CLARA DE UCHUNYA, CARLOS HOYOS SORIA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: - We demand that the State give us back our territory, the one that the transnational company has taken away our right of possession. That is why we come from so far to the capital to present our claim. - We are not asking the state for a favor. We claim the right that corresponds to us by law, and as indigenous peoples, we today have been suffering from so many threats and invasions in our own territories.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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