{"id":1347,"date":"2014-11-10T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2014-11-10T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:58:29","slug":"brazilian-judge-sides-with-tribe-over-land-threatened-by-dams-environment-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/2014\/11\/06\/brazilian-judge-sides-with-tribe-over-land-threatened-by-dams\/\">Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\"><strong style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;\">BRASILIA, Brazil<\/strong>, November 6, 2014 (ENS) \u2013 In a struggle between a Brazilian indigenous tribe and the federal government over two dams that would flood lands claimed by the tribe, a federal judge has ruled that the government must immediately publish its report delineating the tribe\u2019s territory that has been withheld for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">Last week, in response to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Public Prosecutors\u2019 Office, federal judge Rafael Leite Paulo issued a ruling that requires FUNAI, the federal\u00a0agency responsible for indigenous people, to publish its report within 15 days and determine the final decision on demarcation of the Sawre Muybu territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">In October 2013, after completing 12 years of field studies, FUNAI completed a technical report confirming the status of Sawre Muybu as the Munduruku people\u2019s traditional indigenous territory.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #23238e; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; border: initial none initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tapaj%C3%B3sRiver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84235\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/ens-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tapaj%C3%B3sRiver.jpg\" alt=\"Tapaj\u00f3s River\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">But under pressure from the administration of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, FUNAI and the Ministry of Justice have refused to officially publish the report, stalling demarcation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">The court ruled, \u201cThe process is stopped without a valid basis, but only by invoking a generic and empty claim prioritization of the regions Center-South, Southeast and Northeast, and so, the rights of indigenous peoples would be perpetually postponed\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service. 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