Brazilian Senate debates dire situation of Guarani Indians
Following Survival International's report to the UN, the Brazilian Senate’s Human Rights Commission met to discuss the serious problems the Guarani face.
Following Survival International's report to the UN, the Brazilian Senate’s Human Rights Commission met to discuss the serious problems the Guarani face.
The situation of the Guarani tribe of southern Brazil is one of the worst of all Indigenous peoples in the Americas, says a new report by Survival to the UN.
A Brazilian Indian has been murdered in the latest in a string of killings related to the theft of his tribe's land.
The body of a Guarani Indian has been found dead and badly bruised in a river close to his ancestral land in Brazil, following an armed attack on the community of Ypo’i on 30 October.
Senator Marina Silva has given a strong speech in the Brazilian congress following her recent visit to Mato Grosso do Sul state where she attended a large meeting of Guarani Indians.
In the early hours of 18 September, the Guarani Kaiowá community of Apyka´y in Brazil was attacked by ten gunmen, who fired shots in to their camp, wounding one Indian.
A community of 130 Guarani-Kaiowá Indians in Brazil have this week been evicted from their land. They are now living under tarpaulins on the side of a busy highway, with no access to running water or food.
The president of the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department, FUNAI, has declared that resolving Guarani land rights in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul is ‘a question of honour’.