NEWS
IN THE SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT BRAZILIAN PARLIAMENT LEGALIZES LAND GRABBING
The Brazilian indigenous movement continues in the struggle for its constitutional rights.
Brazil is sick – indigenous peoples are the cure for this country!
Come together, relatives, to STRUGGLE FOR LIFE Camp.
Brazilian government systematically violates Convention 169, appoint social organizations denounce to ILO
The framework for the protection of traditional peoples has been disregarded by the country. Late submission of government responses to inquiries from the international organization and organizations prevents the manifestation of the Committee of Experts
Before the UN, Apib and Cimi denounce anti-indigenous measures and question the Brazilian government
The appeal was made in the same week Brazil was mentioned due risk of atrocity against indigenous peoples; Brazilian government tried to present a counter-argument, denied by the UN organism
Victory: Anglo American Agrees to withdraw 27 research mining applications in territories following sustained pressure by Indigenous movement
The campaign demanding Anglo American, one of the world’s biggest mining companies, end its plans to exploit indigenous territories, followed the October 2020 Complicity in Destruction III report
Apib e Coiab activated ONU to stop the 490 bill in Congress
APIB presents a formal reclamation to the Inter-American Commission to prevent a new massacre of Munduruku, Yanomami and Guajajara peoples
The violence escalation into indigenous territories during Covid-19 pandemic will be on the center of the complaints.
Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court postpones decisive trial; indigenous peoples keep their resistance against the Marco Temporal thesis
A case that could seal the future of indigenous peoples returns to the Supreme Court’s voting agenda in August, when the international recognition of indigenous peoples is celebrated
Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court begins trial of the century on Indigenous Lands tomorrow
The Supreme Court will consolidate its legal interpretation on the rights of indigenous peoples over their lands. The Time Limit Trick is a pseudo-legal interpretative framework developed by political sectors to limit Indigenous land rights in order to enable the economic exploitation of Indigenous territories.
Apib brings together over 200 international partners to discuss Indigenous Emergency in Brazil
Members of the ruralist caucus and allies to President Bolsonaro approve bill that paves the way for a new indigenous genocide
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Commission of Constitution and Justice maneuver to approve bill that allows the annulment of Indigenous Territories and makes demarcations unfeasible
Life is a struggle!
Indigenous people are attacked by law enforcement in Brasilia, during pacific demonstration against the 490/2007 Bill
Children and elderlies were among the manifestants; two indigenous people needed health attention; 10 others were injured by the attack.
Rise for the Earth
MANIFEST FOR THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND THE TERRITORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
PUBLIC LETTER FROM BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ABOUT FUNAI
We demand an end to the anti-indigenous agenda in Congress!
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), along with all its fellow organizations, demands that Bill 490/2007 be definitively pulled from the voting agenda of the Commission of Constitution and Justice (CCJ) of the Chamber of Deputies. In practical...
We demand that invaders be expelled from our territory
Munduruku Indigenous leaders attacked by illegal miners in Brazil, Pará state
Note in defense of the life of the indigenous people and against gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land
YANOMAMI ALERT The Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) comes out to the public to express extreme indignation and concern at the escalation of violence committed by landgrabbers against indigenous communities in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in...
Brazil’s Justice nullifies investigation that tries to persecute the indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara and the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
Federal Government pursues and tries to silence the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and Sonia Guajajara
LETTER TO MOTHER EARTH
We are here, we are for you and we are all one! Dear Pacha Mama, generous Mother Earth, We are gathered here in this act to once again reaffirm our commitment and willingness to defend you until the last of our sighs. On this Earth Day, celebrated every April 22, we...
FROM OUR ANCESTRALS TO CURRENT DAYS: OUR INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
Deal with Bolsonaro would sanction Brazil’s tragedy, NGOs tell Biden
UNION AND FIGHT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AGAINST VIRUSES THAT KILL US
The devastating and irreparable death of Aruká Juma
Mining Company Anglo American states it does not rule out mining on Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazilian Indigenous Leaders Issue Call for BlackRock to Adopt a Forests and Indigenous Rights Policy
Our fight is for life
Report on the impact of the pandemic among indigenous peoples will be released on Human Rights International Day
“The Earth is alive, it cannot be owned. Can you finally see?”
APIB receives international Human Rights award
Bolsonaro consolidates politics based on lies and Apib denounces government attacks on UN and STF
THE OMISSION THAT HURTS BRAZIL
‘INDIGENOUS EMERGENCY’: EIGHT-EPISODE WEBSERIES TO BE LAUNCHED ON AUGUST 26
EMERGENCY STATEMENT FROM THE GUARANI & KAIOWÁ COUNSILS IN THE FACE OF THE COVID19 PANDEMIC
We, the traditional Councils of the Guarani & Kaiowá People, Aty Guasu (General Assembly of the Guarani & Kaiowá People), Kuñangue Aty Guasu (Great Assembly of Guarani & Kaiowá Women), RAJ (Guarani & Kaiowá Youth Movement), Aty Jeroky Guasu (General Assembly of...
Mother Earth faces dark days
Mother Earth faces dark days. The world is going through its biggest social, economic and political crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic, which just affects human beings, putting humanity in deep reflection and in resistance for the preservation of life. We...
#01 Indigenous lives and Covid-19
APIB weekly newsletter on the new coronavirus among indigenous peoples.
Brazil, 12 May 2020
FREE LAND CAMP 2020 – FINAL DOCUMENT
We, indigenous peoples, organizations and leaders from every region of Brazil, have been gathering for 16 years in the federal capital for our annual Free Land Camp (ATL), the Great National Indigenous Assembly. Due to the need for social isolation imposed by the...
Murders, invasions and coronavirus
The Coalition of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) reinforces what we have been saying since the beginning of this pandemic: the Coronavirus is not the only thing attacking us.
APIB Alert # 02 Covid-19 and indigenous peoples
APIB Alert # 01
Coronavirus: APIB Articulates Strategies with State Governors to protect Indigenous Peoples across Brazil
Apib’s note: Zezico Guajajara’s murder
Support the indigenous peoples. Help food, medicines and hygiene material get to the villages
The note of APIB: The Brazilian government must present a plan for prevention and care to avoid risks of Coronavirus contamination in indigenous territories
Statement in condemnation of draft Law nº 191/20, on the exploration of natural resources on indigenous lands
Rejection motion against Bolsonaro government project to regulate mining, energy ventures and agribusiness in indigenous lands
Rejection motion to the designation of evangelical missionary as manager for the isolated people protection policy
Désapprobation de la nomination d’un missionnaire évangélique pour gérer la politique de protection des peuples isolés
Manifest of Piaraçu
Meeting of Indigenous leaders
APIB’S NOTE ABOUT ONE MORE GUAJAJARA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MURDERED
APIB note about indigenous leadership murders in Maranhão
Sonia Guajajara’s note of regret and outrage over two murders of the Guajajara People
Indigenous Women Call for Global Climate Action!
APIB note about data of Brazil’s increasing deforestation
Declaration of Civil Society Organizations on the Crisis of Deforestation and Burning in the Brazilian Amazon
Report note against Amazon destruction process by the Bolsonarian government
Final statement of the First Indigenous Women’s March: “Territory: our body, our spirit”
Statement from the first indigenous women’s march: defending the right to culturally-sensitive health care
Women from over 100 brazilian indigenous nations will march on Tuesday
Indigenous women occupy Sesai and demand Silvia Nobre to leave
Third APINA’s Statement About the Invasion of Wajãpi Indigenous Land
Apina’s third note on invasion of the Wajãpi Indigenous Land
APIB disapproval note on crime against the Wajãpi People
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples Association of Brazil (APIB) here expresses its repudiation and revolt with this act of violence against the indigenous peoples of Brazil, which this time fatally targeted cacique Emyra, leader of the Wajãpi people in the...
Indigenous Women’s March Will Bring Together Two Thousand In Brasilia
Illustration @criscvector / @designativista The first Indigenous Women’s March will be held from August 9 to 13 in Brasilia, where will gather two thousand women from the most different peoples, from all over Brazil. With the theme “Territory: our body, our spirit”,...
2nd note from the APINA on the invasion of the Wajãpi indigenous land
APINA’s statement about the invasion of Wajãpi Indigenous Land
We, the Council of Wajãpi Villages – APINA, want to release the information so far available about the invasion of Wajãpi Indigenous Land. On Monday, July 22nd, by the end of the evening, the Indigenous chief called Emyra Wajãpi was violently killed in the region of...
COIAB note against attacks on the Wajãpi people
Indigenous movement in the fight against the dismantling of the Indigenous Health policies
Indigenous leaders from the South and Southeast of Brazil occupied the Ministry of Health in the fight against the dismantling of the Indigenous Health policies and for the...
Desperate to Save His Job, Brazil’s President Temer Escalates Assault on Indigenous Peoples and Amazonian Forests
From Amazon Watch CHRISTIAN POIRIER AND BRENT MILLIKAN This week, Brazil's highly unpopular President Michel Temer signed a legal opinion from the office of his Attorney General (AGU) that directs his government's administration to paralyze all indigenous land...
Indigenous and environmental rights under attack in Brazil, UN and Inter-American experts warn
International Committee writes a thanking letter to APIB for the Terra Livre Camp
The biggest Terra Livre Camp on history!
Free Land Camp 2017 Programming
The entire program aims to bring together in a large assembly leaders of indigenous peoples and organizations from all regions of Brazil to discuss and position themselves on the violation of the constitutional indigenous rights and the anti-indigenous policies of the brazilian State.
Guajajaras blocked BR 316 in defense of the indigenous rights
Indigenous Guajajara from Pindaré Indigenous Land blocked BR 316 that goes through the referred indigenous land, in protest and in deffense of the indigenous rights.
Letter to the indigenous people of Brazil: for an even more indigenous parliament
On the last few years, Brazil’s indigenous people have been facing strong pressures that have intensified in all state power spaces. In parliament, have prevailed in all its levels, the the interest of groups mostly against indigenous peoples rights. In view of that...
FOR THE PERMANENCY OF OUR STRUGGLE IN FAVOR OF DIFFERENTIATED HEALTH
Guarani Kaiowá and Ñandeva from Aty Guasu and Terena Board indigenous leaderships, peoples from Mato Grosso do Sul, besides directors of Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (Apib), have been to the Justice Ministry, on this friday early afternoon, 28, to reinforce...
Justice Minister Osmar Serraglio has a side: is ruralist and declared anti-indigenous
APIB Public note The Justice Minister declarations, the ruralist Osmar Serraglio, sworn in on the last 7th day, and published by Folha de São Paulo today, 3/10, demonstrate which side he is. His initial State Justice minister speeches give sequence to his notorious...