Urgent action: The Guarani need their land!

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Published on Friday, 21 November 2014 10:22
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Urgent Action: The Guarani need their land!

“We are fighting for our land, and we are being killed, one by one.”
Eliseu Lopes, Guarani leader

20 November 2014: Survival is receiving reports that Eliseu's community is being attacked by gunmen.

Earlier this month, Guarani leader Marinalva Manoel was stabbed to death after traveling 1,000km to Brasília to lobby the government to recognize Guarani land rights.

Guarani leaders are singled out, attacked and killed by ranchers’ gunmen as a result of their campaign for their ancestral land to be mapped out and returned to them. Many leaders have received death threats. According to Brazil’s constitution, all the tribe’s land should have been returned to them by 1993.

Forced to live in overcrowded reserves and roadside camps while ranchers earn huge profits on their land, the Guarani suffer alarming rates of malnutrition, suicide and violence. A recent wave of eviction orders threatens to further worsen their horrific plight.

Despite many promises, successive governments have failed to resolve Brazil’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Please write to President Rousseff to demand that her government map out Guarani land immediately.

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Your Excellency,

I am deeply concerned that your government has failed to map out the lands of the Guarani tribe of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Without their ancestral land, the Guarani cannot survive. Their leaders are being killed one by one, their children are dying of malnutrition and they suffer one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

Please uphold the constitution and demarcate the Guarani’s lands immediately, before more lives are lost.

Sincerely,

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