As plantações de dendê estão se espalhando no leste da região amazônica brasileira. De acordo com a população local, as empresas de dendê se apropriaram de grandes áreas de terra. Os habitantes indígenas e quilombolas estão pedindo às autoridades que devolvam suas terras e os protejam da violência e dos ataques. Leia e assine aqui a petição.
The struggle for land in northeast Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon
In the region of the Acará River Valley, in Pará state, the Tembé and Turiwara indigenous peoples and quilombola and peasant communities are fighting to take back part of the territory they traditionally held. Monoculture oil palm plantations owned by Brasil BioFuels (BBF) and Agropalma, as well as ore pipelines owned by Norsk Hydro and Imerys, have invaded their territories and threaten to take over even more land. The struggle of these peoples and communities is not just for territory; it is a struggle to reverse a history of oppression and injustice. Today, they denounce the structural violence they face and the omission of the State.
Articles
2 April 2024
Brazil’s Small Farmers’ Movement (MPA) has written to the state of Pará’s authorities requesting that they urgently regularize the land tenure of three peasant communities threatened with eviction. The letter has the support of 60 organizations from several countries.
Bulletin articles
26 February 2024
In the Acará Valley, Pará state, the Tembé and Turiwara indigenous peoples, and quilombola and peasant communities are fighting to take back part of the living spaces they traditionally occupied. It is not just a struggle for territory, but one to reverse a history of oppression and injustice. Today, they are denouncing structural violence and state omission.
Articles
24 February 2024
Between August 4 and 7, 2023, there were violent attacks on the lives of four indigenous Tembé people as a consequence of the struggle to take back territories from the hands of the company Brasil BioFuels (BBF). In the face of this, the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) sent a formal letter to the authorities requesting the immediate regularization of indigenous and quilombola territories, as well as an investigation into the mechanisms of criminalization of their leaders and the suspension of all incentives to companies involved in the violence.
Articles
24 February 2024
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.