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The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) was founded in 1968 in response to the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil and Paraguay, and in 1969 Survival International was founded in London as a response to the atrocities, theft of land and genocide occurring in the Brazilian Amazon.
In 2019, Jair Bolsonaro was sued by the Arns Commission and the Human Rights Advocacy collective in the International Criminal Court, of which Brazil is a member since 2002, for allegedly "inciting genocide and promoting systemic attacks against indigenous peoples of Brazil".
"The UN convention on genocide, ratified by Brazil, states that the killing 'with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group' is genocide. The Supreme Court ruling is highly significant and sends an important warning to those who continue to commit crimes against indigenous peoples in Brazil." [6]
The Brazilian government's effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the vast territory ...
The Massacre at the 11th Parallel occurred in November 1963, [1] when men hired by a rubber company killed 30 members of the indigenous Amazon group Cinta Larga and destroyed their village. [2] Only two villagers survived. [2] The massacre was a part of the larger, ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The red carpet for Wednesday’s premiere of Tran Anh Hung’s “The Pot au Feu,” with Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, was the scene of a demonstration in support of the land rights of the ...
The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, [1] or settler genocide [2] [3] [note 1] is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. [note 2] According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonialism is intimately connected with ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday vowed a federal response after a conflict between Indigenous people and farmers over land in southern Bahia led to the shooting death of a ...