Acontece essa semana a 17ª Sessão do Fórum Permanente sobre Questões Indígenas das Nações Unidas em Nova Iorque. Representando o povo A’uwẽ-Xavante por meio da Associação Xavante Wara, o lider Hiparidi Top’tiro teve a oportunidade de informar o Fórum sobre a grave situação vivida pelo seu povo.
With support from Cultural Survival, Tribal Link Foundation and generous donors, Xavante leader, Hiparidi Top’tiro of the Xavante Warã Association, spoke at the 17th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues about the grave problems A’uwẽ-Xavante people are confronting as a result of massive soy agribusiness in central Brazil. In meetings facilitated by Cultural Survival, Top’tiro also met with various government missions to the UN including the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany – all major soy importing nations that indicate conc
By Sacred Fire Foundation
Honoring his leadership and tireless work for the rights of Indigenous Peoples worldwide, on November 26, 2016 the Sacred Fire Foundation presented Xané leader Marcos Terena with the Wisdom Fellowship award.
The award ceremony took place in Lima, Perú a Gala dinner during the The Latin America Indigenous Funders Conference, a unique event that brings leaders from the Indigenous, donor, and corporate worlds to the same table.
By Giulia McDonnell
In her recent trip to Brazil from March 7-17, 2016, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz met with more than 50 Indigenous Peoples to identify and assess the main issues they are currently facing, as well as to follow-up on recommendations made in 2008 by her predecessor James Anaya. Some of the communities she met with include the Yanomami, Maxakali, Manoki, Ka'apor, Guarani-Kaiowa, and the Rede de Corporaçāo Amazonica.
Carbondale, Illinois, USA,
18 February 2015
Dilma Rousseff
Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil
Gabinete do Presidente
Palácio do Planalto Praça dos Três Poderes
Brasília – Distrito Federal 70150-900 Brazil
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visits the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam, 2014. Photo by Ichiro Guerra/Sala de Imprensa licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license
By Glenn Scherer, Mongabay, January 17, 2016
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
