On August 8, 2023, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) sent a recommendation to federal and state authorities regarding measures to protect, promote and defend indigenous peoples and quilombola, riverine, peasant and agro-extractivist populations in Pará state.
This occurred after four Tembé indigenous people suffered attacks on their lives, between August 4 and 7, 2023, in retaliation for their struggle to recover their lands, currently in the hands of Brasil BioFuels (BBF), in Tomé-Açu.
Upon visiting the region, CNDH requested, among other measures: the creation of a crisis management unti by the Office of the General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic; a change in the police forces charged with public safety in Tomé-Açu and Acará; the creation by FUNAI ( National Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation) of working groups to demarcate indigenous lands; and that the National Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute (INCRA) and the Pará Lands Institute (ITERPA) do the same in order to provide quilombolas with deeds of their lands.