Following the death of three children with symptoms of malnutrition in the month of March alone, Xavante from the Indigenous Territory of Marãiwatsede in Brazil demand immediate attention to improve health.
Brazil
 Date: April 2, 2013
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 Date: March 28, 2013
The mothers' weeping echoes through the Hup villages in the Upper Rio Negro region of Amazonas, Brazil. It is deafening. The fathers carry their children in their arms. The cemetery is opened once again; two more children are laid to rest. |
 Date: December 21, 2012
The federal task force operating in Mato Grosso will double this week to ensure the removal |
 Date: December 14, 2012
December 6, 2012 was the deadline for removal of illegal invaders in the Xavante Indigenous territory of Marãiwatsede in Mato Grosso state. The invaders remain and the situation continues to be very tense in the region. |
 Brazilian Federal Supreme Court Overrules Decision to Suspend Removal of Invaders from Xavante Lands Date: October 22, 2012
On Thursday October 18, the President of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF), Minister Carlos Ayres Britto, overruled the decision to suspend the removal of illegal occupants from theXavante Territory of Marawãitsede. |
 Date: October 5, 2012
In September, the Regional Federal Court (TRF1) suspended a May 2012 ruling that mandated the removal of illegal occupants from the Marawãitsede Xavante Indigenous Reserve in Mato Grosso state, the epicenter of Brazil’s booming soy agro |
 Date: July 23, 2012
“Farce” and “failure” are a few choice words that Indigenous Peoples have used to describe Rio+20, known officially as the United Nations World Conference on Sustainable Development. |
 Date: June 27, 2012
On June 23, 2012, after digging trenches in the highway and burning bridges to prevent access to nearby towns, armed invaders stepped up their occupation of the Xavante territory of Marãiwatsede in western Brazil. |
 Date: June 22, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Indigenous Peoples delivered the Kari-Oca II Declaration for the protection of Mother Earth to leaders at Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainability, after the military halted hundreds of Indigenous Peoples from entering the area. |
 Date: June 20, 2012
On June 20, 2012 Indigenous people will march to deliver the Kari-Oca Declaration to world leaders. |
 Date: June 20, 2012
Indigenous Peoples from all regions of the world met at the “Indigenous Peoples International Conference on Sustainable Development and Self Determination,” from June 17 – 19, 2012 at the Museu da República i |
 Date: June 19, 2012
By Brenda Norrell |
 Date: June 19, 2012
On June 17, 2012, around 200 indigenous peoples from all around the world met at the Museu do Republica in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, in order to discuss their own visions, concerns and expectations for Rio+20 and sustainable development i |
 Date: June 15, 2012
On June 15, in Brazil, Indigenous people from all over the world started convening for a parallel gathering to the official United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as “Rio+20.” Gathering in Kari-Oca, an Indigenous vi |
 Date: May 25, 2012
“Sustainable development is based on the principle that the right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations.” —1992 Rio Earth Summit |
 Date: May 18, 2012
David and Pia Maybury-Lewis developed the idea for Cultural Survival following their experience living among the Xavante Indians in Central Brazil during the late 1950s. |
 Date: January 24, 2012
In December, Brazil’s Indian Agency (Fundação Nacional do Índio) approved delimitation of the 146,000 hectare Wedezé Indigenous Reserve in the state of Mato Grosso. |
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Date: January 22, 2012
In December, Brazil’s Indian Agency (Fundação Nacional do Índio) approved delimitation of the 146,000 hectare Wedezé Indigenous Reserve in the state of Mato Grosso. |
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Date: November 10, 2011
In another turn in the ongoing law suit over construction of the Belo Monte dam in Brazil, a district federal court ruled on November 9th that Indigenous Peoples who oppose construction of the dam on the Xingu river do not have the right to Free Prior and Informed Consent on the project because it is not located on their traditional territory. This decision contradicts the Brazilian Constitution as well as Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, both of which Brazil has endorsed. |
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Date: October 24, 2011
On October 17, 2011, a Brazilian federal judge ruled that the controversial Belo Monte Dam licenses are illegal and should be revoked since the Brazilian government did not hold proper consultations with Indigenous communities that would be affected by the project. |
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