APIB goes to Supreme Court against anti-indigenous policies by Funai

The Indigenous Peoples Network of Brazil (APIB - Articulação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil) added a petition to the ADPF 709 suit at the Federal Supreme Court (STF), against the recent measure by the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) that excluded non-demarcated Indigenous Lands (TIs) from its protection (Memorandum nº 18/2021).

In the text, Apib points out “that the official indigenous peoples body of the Brazilian State, responsible for implementing public policy for indigenous peoples, and which has as its primary mission, the defense of the rights and interests of indigenous peoples and their lands, is adopting a posture of minimal defense, exactly at the political moment when indigenous lands are under the target of political and economic interests that fall upon such territories”.

ADPF 709 was filed by the organization in July 2020, together with six political parties, to denounce the government’s omission in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and demand the elaboration of an emergency plan for the control of the pandemic in indigenous territories.