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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
Indigenous celebrate as a majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled against efforts to restrict native peoples' rights to reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners. IMAGES
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.
Brasilia, Sep 10 (EFE) (CAMERA: Alex Mirkhan) .- Thousands of indigenous women marched Friday in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, where they raised their voices for the rights of indigenous peoples.
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.
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