'We made it': tears of joy as Brazil backs Indigenous land rights – video report
by from Environment | The Guardian on (#6EZXF)
Brazil's supreme court has blocked efforts to dramatically strip back Indigenous land rights in what activists called a historic victory for the South American country's original inhabitants. Nine of the court's 11 members voted against what rights groups had called the 'time-limit trick' - an agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent Indigenous communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1998
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