Brazil Matters

23/03/2026

President Lula warned that the world is witnessing a return to colonial-style control over developing nations during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Colombia on Saturday (21 March).

He criticised US actions in Latin America and beyond, from Cuba to Venezuela, questioning whether such policies align with democratic values.

“They want to colonise us again,” Lula said, pointing to growing global competition over critical minerals and strategic resources.

He also condemned recent military actions against Iran, drawing parallels with the Iraq war and questioning the justifications used in both cases.

The message was clear: the struggle for sovereignty is far from over.

Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / PR

19/03/2026

We’re always talking about demarcating Indigenous territories in Brazil. But what does that even mean? 🤔

Demarcation formalizes the legal right of Indigenous people to their lands. It guarantees them legal security and complete freedom for them to use it. At the moment, there are hundreds of Indigenous territories that have been demarcated, but many hundreds more still haven’t been. Brazil’s constitution guarantees Indigenous people the right to demarcation.

What needs doing to get a demarcation finished? 👀

These are all the steps 👇

1️⃣ Identification and delimitation
Anthropologists study the territory. They need to show that one or more Indigenous people are using the territory traditionally.

2️⃣ Objections
90-day period for objections to the study.

3️⃣ Declaration of boundaries
The Minister of Justice decides where the boundaries are

4️⃣ Physical demarcation
The Brazilian Indigenous Agency FUNAI marks out the physical boundaries.

5️⃣ Presidential approval
The President of Brazil signs it into law

6️⃣ Registration
The Indigenous Territory is registered

All clear. What doesn’t make sense is why it taking the Brazilian government so long to get some of the territories fully demarcated. There are some Indigenous territories that have been undergoing the process for up to 40 years! It’s shocking how a lack of resources from the responsible agencies, lack of political will, and pressure from local politicians and businesses can slow the process right down.

Want to do something about it? Send an email to pressure the Brazilian government to finish the full demarcation of the Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. It’s been 26 years of waiting! 👉 svlint.org/KawahivaIG

brazilmatters

27/02/2026

Experts have warned for years that extreme events will intensify as the climate crisis advances. We don’t lack warnings: we lack action.⁣
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While decisions keep being delayed, those living in the most vulnerable areas pay the price. This is no coincidence. It is a political choice, a development model, an economic priority.⁣
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Fighting climate change means pushing for serious public policies, halting the expansion of fossil fuels, and investing in cities prepared to protect lives✊ The climate crisis is already here. Our response must be too.⁣
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Sign the petition and demand real change: link in bio!⁣
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24/02/2026

After more than a month blockading ’s grain terminal, Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a major victory.⁠
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President Lula has revoked Decree 12,600/2025, removing the Madeira, Tapajós, and Tocantins Rivers from Brazil’s National Privatization Program and stopping plans to dredge the Tapajós to accelerate soy and corn exports.⁠
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Indigenous leaders warned the decree would open the door to destructive dredging, turning living rivers into dead export corridors and threatening the waterways communities depend on for survival.⁠
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As Auricélia Arapiuns, a leader from the Lower Tapajós region said, “This river is our road. It is our source of food, the home of our fish, and essential to the balance of the forest and the climate. How can this richness be turned into a corridor for soy? And worse, without listening to the peoples who live in and from it?”⁠
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This victory was powered by Indigenous leadership, courage, and collective action. Thank you to everyone who stood in solidarity to protect the Amazon’s rivers. ⁠

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19/11/2025

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Climate justice means protecting those who defend life. ✊🌱

As continues, the reality outside the negotiation halls cannot be ignored: Indigenous Peoples are facing threats, violence, and loss of life for defending their territories. ⚠
This tragedy exposes who is truly living the climate crisis: Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. While global leaders debate policies, the are risking — and losing — their lives to protect what sustains us all. 🌍

A climate conference cannot claim ambition if it does not guarantee safety, justice, and protection for those on the frontlines. 🛡

We stand with the Guarani Kaiowá. 🔴

18/11/2025

📣 Indigenous peoples from across the world took to the streets of Belem yesterday to demand climate justice and shout loud and clear that they are the answer.

“WE—the peoples of the forests, waters, countryside, and cities, from the Amazon to the Pacific, in every corner of the planet—know that the time to act is NOW 🏹

There will be no preservation of life on a planet in flames. The climate crisis is also a crisis of leadership and values. Science confirms what ancestral knowledge has always known: climate justice will only be possible if there is also territorial, social, and popular justice.”

Join this call. You are also part of the answer.

14/11/2025

🌎 Global day of Action for climate justice.

Join us in solidarity with indigenous peoples who are at the frontline of resistance against the polluters 🏹 ✊🏾

12pm opposite Downing Street

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

🌎 From the Amazon to the world: enough inequality and environmental racism, climate justice now!

Join the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on Saturday 15 November ✊🏾

Solidarity with indigenous peoples 🏹

13/11/2025

Powerful flotilla kicks of People’s Summit in Belém.

Around 200 vessels carrying thousands of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, members of traditional communities social movements and climate activists from 60 countries travelled up and down Belém’s Guamá river with messages of climate justice on Wednesday (12) inaugurating the People’s Summit where the discussions that matter will be held and the real solutions will be presented.

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12/11/2025

🔥 Occupy COP! 🔥

🏹✊🏾 Indigenous people and activists storm into COP30’s Blue Zone where climate negotiations are taking place to say their lives are not for sale and demand a just transition, protesting the drilling of oil in the Amazon basin, the roads and railways projects that will cut through indigenous lands and cause more destruction only to benefit agribusiness and mining.

Indigenous peoples have the answers to combat the climate crisis, they are the solution and any climate financing should go to them, the owners of the lands and guardians of the forests.

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11/11/2025

🔥 Record Indigenous Presence. Zero Real Power.

began yesterday (Nov 10) in Belém — in the heart of the Amazon — with global leaders calling for unity and urgent climate action. President Lula has declared this the “COP of Truth”, a space to confront misinformation and put science first.

But the real truth is that the guardians of the forest — Indigenous peoples — are still being pushed aside.

More than 3,000 Indigenous representatives from every Brazilian biome have gathered in Belém — the largest Indigenous presence in COP history. Yet only 1,000 have access to the Blue Zone, where real negotiations take place. And even there, their voices are silenced.

This cannot be the “COP of Truth” when those who are the truth — the protectors of life, the stewards of the Earth — are excluded from decisions about the planet’s future.

Indigenous peoples are not guests. They are leaders. Their knowledge, their resistance, their care for the Earth must be at the forefront of climate action.

If we want a liveable planet, Indigenous peoples must lead the way.

📸 Vicclima