Land boost for Brazilian Indians - Democratic Underground

dipsydoodle

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Thu Mar-19-09 07:04 PM
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Land boost for Brazilian Indians

Source: BBC News

A ruling by Brazil's supreme court has boosted the efforts of the country's disadvantaged indigenous groups to keep control of their lands.

By 10 votes to one, judges ruled to maintain an Indian reservation in the northern border state of Roraima as a single, continuous territory.

It means that a small group of outside rice farmers with plantations in the area will now have to leave.

The head of the court also accused the government of failing the Indians.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7954121.stm

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Arctic Dave

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Thu Mar-19-09 07:47 PM
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