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GAIN ACCESS TO EXCLUSIVE MEMBER-ONLY EXPERIENCES, PRODUCT LAUNCHES, AND MORE THROUGHOUT…Trying to consolidate their leading role in the fight for territory and political prominence, around 8,000 Indigenous women occupied Brasília during the III March of Indigenous Women.
The march aimed to strengthen political action and the occupation of representative spaces by Indigenous women, and also to initiate dialogues for the creation of public policies for Indigenous peoples inside and outside their territories, meeting specific demands of their realities. “We need to echo our voices so that our bodies-territory are present in all spaces and places of decision-making and power,” says Daniele Guajajara, communicator at ANMIGA.
“It is necessary and urgent to reconnect with Mother Earth, as this is the only way to keep our bodies alive,” says the, published during the second march under the theme “Original Women: reforesting minds for the healing of the Earth.” “Reflorestarmentes is not just about reforesting the land. It is also about building, thinking about what world, what Amazon, what Brazil we will have,” explains Puyr.
, held by the Federal Supreme Court to debate how climate justice relates to topics such as human rights, democracy, minorities and intergenerational responsibility. The III March of Indigenous Women took place under a new political scenario, in the third term of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, largely supported by Indigenous peoples. However, there were intense concerns about the proposed time frame, a legal thesis that argues that Indigenous peoples have the right to occupy only the lands they occupied or were already contesting on Oct. 5, 1988, the date of promulgation of the Constitution.
On Sept. 21, the Supreme Court ruled against the highly controversial time frame thesis, in what activists regard as a triumph for the country’s traditional peoples.
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