(São Paulo, April 12, 2023) –  Brazil should not impose an arbitrary cutoff date that curtails the land rights of Indigenous peoples, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Solicitor General Jorge Messias. His office should immediately review a harmful legal opinion that Indigenous communities cannot obtain formal recognition of their lands if they were not physically present on them on October 5, 1988, the day Brazil's Constitution was enacted, or if they had not initiated legal claims by that date.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/12/brazil-recognize-indigenous-land-rights

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