Brazil

2017

Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

38,213

Responding to the proposed Constitutional amendment and legislative reforms that could affect historical gains on collective tenure rights, 3,200 indigenous leaders assembled in the Brazilian capital as part of the Free Land Camp mobilization to advocate for the respect of their territorial rights. Indigenous leaders were able to meet with the president of the House of Representatives who promised to take their needs into account in Congressional debates on Constitutional and policy reforms.  IPs also organized committees to follow up on negotiation with the government in the weeks following the mobilization.