indigenous peoples of Brazil

BRASILIA, Brazil — As many as 2,000 of Brazil's indigenous people marched Thursday through the capital to protest what they say is an ... 30 years, has the Brazilian state opted for a relationship so completely adverse to the rights of indigenous people,” the Coalition of Indigenous People of Brazil said in a ...

On that hot and muggy night on April 14 in Rio de Janeiro, more than 3,000 people gathered at the center of Rio to demand police action in the murder of Afro-Brazilian politician Marielle Franco and to mark the one-month anniversary of her death. Franco, known for her initiatives to help favela dwellers, ...

Brasilia: Thousands of Brazil's indigenous people - many wearing feathered headdresses, traditional grass skirts and body paint - have marched through the capital to ... In front of the Justice Ministry, a handful of people lay down on a Brazilian flag and a sign that read, "End of the indigenous genocide.".

"The murder of indigenous people living on the front lines of environmental protection is unacceptable," said Mr Solheim. Brazil was the world's most dangerous nation for land rights activists in 2016, with about 50 people killed, according to London-based advocacy group Global Witness. The Pastoral Land ...

"We are here to demand our rights," Jailson dos Santos, leader of the Kariri-Xoko tribe from Bahia, northeastern Brazil, told Al Jazeera from the protest outside the attorney general's office on Wednesday. Indigenous people's right to their traditional lands is enshrined in Brazil's constitution. In practice ...

Young Brazilian indigenous people attend a meeting at the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia. Approximately 2,500 indigenous people from different tribes are taking part in the Indigenous National Mobilization (MNI) week - a mobilization which seeks to tackle territorial rights' ...