First year of the Temporal Framework Law intensifies conflicts and paralyzes the demarcation of indigenous lands

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The report on Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, which is produced by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), released on 28 July, for example, demonstrates the occurrence of 424 cases of violence against indigenous people by 2024. Unlawful killings, sexual violence, discrimination, racism, personal injury, and substance abuse-of-power-up the data that is considered in the survey. 

Divided into three sections, with 19 categories for the analysis, the report includes violence against the person violence against the stockholders and the State, by the omission of a public authority. The report sets out a relationship between the increase in cases of domestic violence and the impacts of the first year of enforcement of the Law, 14.701, the so-called “Law of the Milestone,” Time, with the slow processes of demarcation and to promote the violations of indigenous peoples ‘ lands by land-grabbers, miners, trappers, and loggers,. 

During the event, the secretary-general of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), don Ricardo Hoepers, said on the report is a warning and a cry for justice “In the first year of the term of this new law, who had been the deterioration of the structural violence against indigenous communities, a result of the stoppage of the process for demarcation of their lands and of the eligibility of the conflict, such as political,” he said.

The director-general of the OPAN, Ivar Busatto, the violence is directly related to the Law in the Framework of time. “This legislation to block the force, and the possibility of seeing a right is recognized, regardless of the date,” he says, as for the law, impedes the progress in the demarcation of the land, which boosts stress, anxiety, and conflict.

According to the data in the chapter on violence against the person has been registered with 211 cases of murder, with a significant increase in 10 years, and in the 138 cases in 2014. The majority of the victims in 2024 were between the ages of 20 and 29 years of age and older. The state has recorded the highest number of deaths due to murder, was in the state of Roraima, to be followed by the Amazon state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Among the cases of assault were reported for about 29 from injuries to the body. In some of the cases reported so far, the attacks have been collective, with groups of farmers, or by the actions of the police. The article analyses the case of who killed the leadership of the indian Fatima Maria Dora the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe, known as ‘ Deny Pataxó, who was shot and killed in an attack by other military officers in the country, in the south-west of the state of Bahia, in January, 2024. Three other people were injured by the firing of a gun, and you, and at least eight indigenous people suffered injuries, with sticks and stones.

The brutality of the attack, which resulted in the death of the Denies of the Pataxó was, and he rallied the indigenous organizations and indigenous activists from around the country, and had many discussions about violence against indigenous peoples. As to the form of the complaint, and solidarity, which was approved by a vote of Protest in his memory at the first National Conference of Women, Indigenous peoples, held in the fourth Gear to the National Indigenous Women’s, strengthening the call for justice, and against the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators, who have proven results, with an assessment of the Regional Federal Court (TRF), in which the 21-year-old, who was appointed as responsible for the death of the shaman Deny the Pataxó is to be submitted to the jury. The motion to the full article can be found at the end of the story.

In the section of the violence against property, which are in the indigenist missionary council monitored around 1241 the cases are separated into one of three categories: omission, delay in the settlement of the land, a total of 857 cases, disputes arising out of the rights to land, with 134 cases reported so far, and the invasions of taking possession, the illegal exploitation of natural resources, and the various types of damage to the property, with 230 cases. 

The text also exposes those cases in which the State is in violation of the rights of indigenous peoples, when you are unwilling to assist such people. In the chapter on violence in the default State, there are a total of 311 cases between the two categories of desassistência general desassistência in the field of education and health care. In addition to the lack of care in the fight against the spread of the alcohol and the lack of basic infrastructure, such as lack of clean drinking water.

In the same chapter, and in accordance with the data obtained from the Information System on Mortality (SIM), the state departments of health, and the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (National), is the document that records about 208 suicide. According to the report, the numbers are a reflection of the lack of public policies for indigenous peoples in the approach to the subject. 

In 2024 have been recorded 922 deaths of children aged 0 to 4 years of age due to causes considered preventable, such as the flu and pneumonia. The lack of effectiveness of the campaigns of state-of-health, particularly in the areas of immunization, and early diagnosis, which has contributed to this scenario is grave.

The report on Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, was launched during the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), in Brasilia, the transmitted video is available on the website of the CCME.

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The motion of the protest and the case – it Denies the Pataxó, adopted at the first National Conference of Women, Indigenous people, while the fourth National March of Women, Indigenous people

, We, the women, the Association’s Future of Indigenous Women, and the women gathered in a tent to care for it Denies the Pataxó, we show in motion a protest, our indignation in the face of the silence of the act of the crime that led to the murder of a shaman’s Needs.

This is a violent crime that was committed in January, 2024. With a part of the movement, the actions of the military, rural, and the invasion of zero, with the time, and the default for the relief of the public security forces of the state of Bahia, brazil. The murder, Denies that it was a political crime committed by a group that is acting unlawfully against the demarcation of indigenous lands and territories, traditional.

This group is spread all over the country, with the support of a portion of the apparatus of public safety, the state has been facing and is accepted at our leaders.

As a Deny, the many other family members have been the victims of acts of violence, harassment, and attacks against the state of Bahia, and also in other states of brazil, due to your activity on the fight for the delimitation and demarcation of their lands, the constitutional right of indigenous peoples, which has been severely undermined.

The response to this crime, you need an effective and robust.

The justice that we seek, not only to the criminal liability of those who held the power. Want your research to the serious investigation of the movement of ‘invasion of the zero, and the responsibility of their engaging in these and other crimes.

On the 22nd of August, in the year 2025 will be held in Brasilia, with a feature on the MINISTRY [Ministério Público Federal] to challenge the decision, which overturned the arrest of the murderer to Deny it. An appeal from the defendant, that there will not be a jury of the people.

To prevent the jury, is a strategy to reduce the pain and erase the crime.

The jury is where the memory is, with the racism and brutality, did not go unnoticed. Demand justice Denies that it is, in the fight against impunity and for the safety and security of indigenous peoples and the protection of our lands and territories.

The life and rights. We want justice Denies this and all the other leaders were overthrown in the battle for the earth. We, the people, and to our families and they deserve respect, to repair and the responsibility for the crime. It comes with impunity in this country.

It denies the Pataxó a gift!

– Brasilia, 06/08/2025.