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As you know weโve been following very closely the Marco Temporal bill in Brazil. Below whatโs happening now, after the Supreme Court blocked it in August and the Senate approved it in September, itโs now up to President Lula.
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๐ง๐ท The Fight for Territory in Brazil
In July, we published a story on the Marco Temporal thesis, a political argument that was first articulated among the 19 conditions of the Raposa-Serra do Sol judgement in 2009 in the Supreme Court of Brazil. These conditions, called โinstitutional safeguardsโ, gave Brazilian states the right to be involved in the demarcation process of Indigenous territories.
The discussion of Marco Temporal relates to Indigenous Rights to land, as referenced within the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, and specifically the land they โtraditionally occupyโ. The Raposa-Serra do Sol judgement arose from the tensions between the different perceptions of the territory of Raposa-Serra do Sol โ between Indigenous Peoples, rice producers, farmers and miners, as well as the State and Federal Governments โ and a specific articulation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the laws that uphold them, was necessary. The thesis can be found in the judgement, and is articulated in full in our aforementioned story.
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