Faced with the threat of extinction and actions against environmentalists and indigenous peoples, the Articulation of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples appealed to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for precautionary measures to ensure the protection of isolated groups.
In a document that spans more than 120 pages and also includes the complaints of native Bruno Pereira, who was killed in the Amazon, the entity denounces the risk of genocide. According to them, the initiative “aims to avoid irreparable harm to indigenous peoples and to present and future generations, Brazil and Humanity”.
“There is a real risk that the very serious failures of the federal government to protect the life, safety and psychophysical integrity of isolated indigenous peoples and those with recent contact in Brazil could even lead to the extermination of certain ethnic groups,” they warn. .
“There is a risk of genocide, as local organizations, the press, and various international institutions and organizations have warned. Also, if nothing is done, there is a risk of delaying the execution of an indigenous policy that is extremely harmful to indigenous peoples. As has been and has been heavily portrayed in the national and international media,” he warned. .
In the petition, the group requests an injunction to instruct the Federal Union “to take all necessary measures to guarantee the full protection of the areas with the presence of 118 indigenous peoples alone and recently contacted.”
Indigenous people are calling for an Action Plan within 60 days to regulate and protect indigenous lands, with the presence of isolated and recently contacted indigenous peoples. The plan should include programs of action, including completing the demarcation of the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo indigenous lands in the isolated aboriginal state of Mato Grosso.
An action plan is also required to carry out surveillance, control and protection activities aimed at ensuring the integrity of indigenous lands and controlling invasions.
The petition also requests that the STF “instruct the Federal Union to implement the financial contribution of new resources to Funai” within 30 days. . isolated and recently contacted indigenous peoples, including physical restructuring, the opening of new conservation units, and certain items for recruitment”.
The request also requests that the STF establish “recognition of the isolated lifestyle as a declaration of the right of isolated indigenous peoples to free self-determination, considering that the act of isolation is sufficient for consultation purposes under the provisions of the Convention”. International Organization (ILO) No. 169, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, international human rights norms internalized in the Brazilian legal system”.
Apib requests fines, including personnel if necessary, for non-compliance with the requested measures. In their view, the amounts should be allocated to the Funai budget, with special application in policies to protect the then isolated and recently contacted indigenous peoples.
“The Federal Government has acted absolutely irresponsibly with regard to the protection of the land, self-determination, lives and customs of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Peoples,” the document states.
“The actions and omissions of the Public Power put some indigenous peoples at real risk of genocide, use with a short validity that could result in the extermination of entire ethnic groups. Likewise, Ethno-environmental Protection Bases and Fronts are threatened daily. by the presence of various invaders, namely: loggers, prospectors, fishermen, hunters, drug smugglers, missionaries, landowners and land usurpers”.
The petition highlights the opening of Indigenous Territories to isolated and recently contacted peoples to the entry of third parties, such as missionaries, prospectors, loggers and other illegal invaders, who seek to illegally exploit the territory or violate their right to self-determination, amid attacks. peoples.
It also condemns the scrapping and equipping of government agencies specializing in providing protection to isolated peoples, such as the Ethno-Environmental Protection Fronts and Bases, the General Coordination of Isolated and Newly Contacted Indians.
source: Noticias
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