After outcry, Brazil Supreme Court nixes proposal for mining on Indigenous lands

After outcry, Brazil Supreme Court nixes proposal for mining on Indigenous lands

Following intense outcry nationwide and abroad, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has recently removed the proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution. However, other contentious points remain, including compensation for non-Indigenous settlers, which advocates say could make the land demarcation process unfeasible. Presented in February by Justice…

🔊 Listen to this news Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca called for a legal framework to protect the genetic resources and traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples. This statement was made during the inauguration of the “General Course on Intellectual Property with an Emphasis on Traditional Knowledge,” organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on April 3, 2025. “We must build an appropriate legal framework to …

Brazil's Supreme Court rejects request to arrest Bolsonaro

The magistrate attended to the request of the Attorney General’s Office (Prosecutor’s Office), which expressed its opposition to the provisional imprisonment and requested the filing of the news-crime. According to the Attorney General Paulo Gonet, the councilwoman Liana Cristina da Costa, who demanded the preventive imprisonment, is not in legitimacy to make this request to the STF and there are no minimum elements of evidence to justify the ar…

Alexandre de Moraes denies request for prison for Bolsonaro made by councilwoman The Federal Supreme Court Minister (STF) Alexandre de Moraes denied the request for prison of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).The decision followed the opinion of the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet. Moraes denies the arrest of Bolsonaro The measure responds to a [...] Entry Brazil Federal Supreme Court denies request for prison for Jair Bolsonar…

In this episode, Giovana Girardi, Marina Amaral and Ricardo Terto discuss the struggle of indigenous peoples against the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which, through Justice Gilmar Mendes, seeks to reverse, at least partially, the unanimous decision of the plenary, taken in 2023, which considered the thesis of the Temporal Framework for the demarcation of indigenous lands as unconstitutional. In addition, the program brings the demand of indigeno…

ECNETNews Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), rejected this Wednesday (2) a request for preventive detention of former president Jair Bolsonaro due to his call for demonstrations in support of the amnesty project for those involved in the attacks of January 8, 2023. Moraes argued that the authors of the complaint do not have legitimacy to present such a request to the Supreme Court, accepting the statement of the At…