The UN expressed this Wednesday his “worry” in the face of possible reversals of rights natives in Brazil the same day that the Federal Supreme Court resumed a trial on ancestral lands.
The representative for South America of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jan Jarab, criticized in a statement “any action that could weaken or relativize the protection of indigenous peoples in Brazil and in the region”.
For Jarab, the protection of indigenous lands is “essential for them to be able to enjoy all other rights”.
The Supreme Court discussed again this Wednesday, after a pause of almost two months, the constitutionality of the legal thesis known as “time frame”which maintains that indigenous peoples only have the right to the lands they occupied on October 5, 1988, the date of promulgation of the Brazilian Constitution.
According to the UN, an eventual endorsement by the highest court of this thesis would mean a “serious setback” for the rights of native peoples and would conflict with international human rights standards.
For now, of the eleven magistrates that make up the court, two have ruled against the “time frame” and two others in favor.
After magistrate André Mendonça read part of his vote in favor of the thesis this Wednesday, the president of the Supreme Court, Rosa Weber, suspended the trial, which will continue tomorrow.
The continuation of the trial has generated great expectations among the indigenous peoples, who gathered some 800 representatives this Wednesday in front of the courthouse in Brasilia to request the unconstitutionality of the “time frame”.
Source: EFE
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