Violence against indigenous peoples increases in Brazil, says report

O report “Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil” – released this month by the Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) – showed that cases of invasions and illegal exploitation of natural resources in Indigenous Lands have practically tripled in recent years.

According to the survey, last year, Cimi recorded the occurrence of 305 cases of invasions with the intention of establishing ownership, unauthorized exploitation of resources and damage to property in at least 226 Indigenous Lands in 22 states in the country.

The previous year, 263 cases of invasion had affected 201 lands in 19 states. The number of cases in 2021 is almost three times greater than that recorded in 2018, when 109 cases of this type were recorded.

“These violence and violations of indigenous territorial rights have not only increased considerably in recent years but have also developed, in many cases, stability and their own organic structure that exists and functions with the connivance and thanks to the systematic omission of the State”, denounces an excerpt from the report.

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