A disastrous vote in Brazil’s Congress threatens the survival of Indigenous people across the entire country. It’s the most serious attack on Indigenous rights in decades, and it’s vital that there’s a global outcry against it.
Brazil’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, approved a bill called PL2903 (formerly PL490). It attacks Indigenous people and their rights on every level:
- It could allow ANY Indigenous territory in the country to be scrapped, or slashed in size, and replaced by mines, oil wells or other industrial projects.
- Loggers, ranchers and others who have illegally invaded Indigenous territories will be allowed to remain there destroying the forest, until the lands are fully demarcated – a process that usually takes decades.
- Government teams will be allowed to make forced contact with uncontacted tribes. Such contacts are almost always deadly.
- Many Indigenous peoples will never be able to recover their land as the bill also boosts the Time Limit Trick, a pro-business ruse which states that Indigenous peoples who can’t prove they were on their land when the Constitution was enacted in October 1988 will never have their rights recognized.
Altogether hundreds of Indigenous territories that are home to over a million Indigenous people could be destroyed, and dozens of uncontacted tribes could be wiped out.
All this is in direct violation of Brazil’s constitution and international law, but the powerful agribusiness lobby in Congress doesn’t care about that.
Brazil’s upper house – the Senate – could vote this bill through at any moment.
Please email the Senators now, urging them to vote against this appalling and dangerous bill.
The Senators are:
ALAN RICK
ALESSANDRO VIEIRA
ANA PAULA LOBATO
ANGELO CORONEL
ASTRONAUTA MARCOS PONTES
AUGUSTA BRITO
BETO FARO
CARLOS PORTINHO
CARLOS VIANA
CHICO RODRIGUES
CID GOMES
CIRO NOGUEIRA
CLEITINHO
CONFUCIO MOURA
DAMARES ALVES
DANIELLA RIBEIRO
DAVI ALCOLUMBRE
DR. HIRAN
EDUARDO BRAGA
EDUARDO GIRÃO
EDUARDO GOMES
EFRAIM FILHO
ELIZIANE GAMA
ESPERIDIÃO AMIN
FABIANO CONTARATO
FERNANDO DUEIRE
FERNANDO FARIAS
FLÁVIO ARNS
FLÁVIO BOLSONARO
GIORDANO
HAMILTON MOURÃO
HUMBERTO COSTA
IRAJÁ
IVETE DA SILVEIRA
IZALCI LUCAS
JADER BARBALHO
JAIME BAGATTOLI
JAQUES WAGNER
JAYME CAMPOS
JORGE KAJURU
JORGE SEIF
JUSSARA LIMA
LAÉRCIO OLIVEIRA
LEILA BARROS
LUCAS BARRETO
LUIS CARLOS HEINZE
MAGNO MALTA
MARA GABRILLI
MARCELO CASTRO
MARCIO BITTAR
MARCOS DO VAL
MARCOS ROGÉRIO
MARGARETH BUZETTI
MECIAS DE JESUS
NELSINHO TRAD FILHO
OMAR AZIZ
ORIOVISTO GUIMARÃES
OTTO ALENCAR
PAULO PAIM
PLÍNIO VALÉRIO
PROFESSORA DORINHA SEABRA
RANDOLFE RODRIGUES
RENAN CALHEIROS
RODRIGO CUNHA
RODRIGO PACHECO
ROGÉRIO CARVALHO
ROGERIO MARINHO
ROMÁRIO
SERGIO MORO
SÉRGIO PETECÃO
SORAYA THRONICKE
STYVENSON VALENTIM
TERESA LEITÃO
TEREZA CRISTINA
VANDERLAN CARDOSO
VENEZIANO VITAL DO RÊGO
WEVERTON
WILDER MORAIS
ZENAIDE MAIA
ZEQUINHA MARINHO
