Country:

Brazil

Date:

2020 - 2021

Implementor:

ISA and Collaborators APIB and COIAB

Funding Amount:

29,893

Details:

This SRM is supporting a concerted strategy to pressure the government to revoke the bill and prove its unconstitutionality due to its impacts on the fundamental rights of IPs to their territories, their self- determination rights, and their control over their traditional seeds and food production system. RRI is providing key added value to this process by supporting ISA’s preparation of a legal-technical analysis with Indigenous leaders, which it is using to directly engage members of the congress and prepare arguments for the congressional review. ISA will also disseminate the demands of the leaders through an advocacy and communications campaign to influence public opinion and put additional pressure on the congress to revoke the bill. Congress’ review of the bill and the implementation of the project were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and is now expected to be completed in March 2021. ISA has initiated discussions with Indigenous leaders to establish a consensus on their demands and the messaging of the communications campaign. In addition, they have defined key issues, technical arguments, and advanced in systematizing the experiences of IPs with mining projects in other countries to build a comprehensive analysis to defend Brazilian IPs against the passage of this bill.