A drone view shows the the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp as indigenous people camp to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights, in Brasilia, Brazil April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Thousands of Indigenous people from across Brazil are rallying in the nation's capital this week to demand protection for their land rights, fighting legislation that could make it impossible for some tribes to reclaim territory they were forced to leave.
Disputes over the 2023 law, backed by the powerful farm lobby, have fomented the protests by Indigenous groups who say it violates their rights to ancestral lands recognized in Brazil's 1988 constitution.
