RIO DE JANEIRO (CN) — Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld the traditional land rights. of the country’s Indigenous people on Thursday, ruling for the second time to eliminate a doctrine intended to restrict their rights to land demarcation beyond the date the current Constitution was enacted.
The ruling comes a little more than two years after the court similarly rejected the temporal framework in a landmark decision. The so-called “marco temporal” doctrine states that tribes only had the rights to lands that were occupied or were under dispute when the Constitution was enacted in Oct. 5, 1988.
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