Dear President of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) Marcelo Augusto Xavier,
I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to respectfully urge you to revoke Resolution n° 4/2021, adopted by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) on January 26, which states, among other provisions, that the recognition of an individual by an ethnic group should be consistent with “a definition based on technical/scientific criteria.”[1] It is our assessment that the Resolution contravenes international human rights obligations both in the manner in which it was enacted and in its content.
Human Rights Watch is an international nongovernmental organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world. In conducting our research in different countries, we apply international treaties currently in force in this field, and work with governments and civil society to uphold human rights and the rule of law.
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Brazil: Probe Ordered into Amazon Forest Land Put Up for Sale on Facebook
A Supreme Court justice said some of the areas advertised for sale on Facebook Marketplace belonged to the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people, who had been exposed to coronavirus by illegal land-grabbers.
An indigenous child of Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe looks on in an area deforested by invaders, after a meeting was called in the village of Alto Jamari to face the threat of armed land grabbers invading the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous Reservation near Campo Novo de Rondonia, Brazil January 30, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino
World03/Mar/2021
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s top court on Tuesday ordered an investigation into how tracts of stolen land in the Amazon rainforest inhabited by indigenous tribes came to be put up for sale on Facebook.