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A delegation with Indigenous experts and representatives from the Guarani Kaiow\u00e1, Av\u00e1-Guarani and Xokleng Indigenous people is in Geneva, Switzerland, to denounce at the United Nations (UN) the violence against native peoples in Brazil.<\/a><\/p>\n At the 57th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the delegation reported the attacks by farmers and military police officers who, between July and September in Paran\u00e1 and Mato Grosso do Sul alone, killed one Indigenous man, wounded around 20 and left five people with bullets lodged in their bodies. A 15-year-old Kaiow\u00e1 teenager also died<\/a> in circumstances that remain unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n The delegation stressed to the international authorities that the escalation of violence in the country is related to the Time Frame Law 14.701\/23. Its approval by the Brazilian Congress<\/a> at the end of 2023 ignored the recommendations of this same UN body to Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLaw 14.701 has stopped demarcations [of Indigenous lands]. They are forcing our people to give up their sacred lands. They set traps and offer us other lands. Congress is working against our rights. The Supreme Court, with Justice Gilmar Mendes, has created a Conciliation Chamber to negotiate rights and favor of the agribusiness sector,\u201d said <\/a>Sim\u00e3o Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 in Geneva.\u00a0<\/p>\n A survivor of the 2016 Caarap\u00f3 Massacre, Sim\u00e3o has a bullet lodged near his heart. \u201cWe ask the countries that are here, given what the rapporteurs have already said, for God’s sake help us to demand an end Time Frame argument and Law 14.701; to demarcate our lands; to guarantee the safety of our people and the investigation into the murders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Alessandra Korap, from the Munduruku people, told Brasil de Fato<\/strong> that by talking about \u201cthe issue of drought, the death of our river, wildfires and everything that is happening\u201d, they are making it clear to the international community that \u201cthis has a name: agribusiness\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n Vilma Rios, from the Guassu Guavir\u00e1 Indigenous Land in the state of Paran\u00e1, is another of the Indigenous leaders who made a statement to the United Nations. The young Av\u00e1-Guarani woman was hit by lead shots on August 27 in an attack by so-called \u201cfarmers\u201d on the retomada<\/em> tekoha Yvho’i. Retomada<\/em><\/a> is the Portuguese word for areas Indigenous people take back from invaders, most commonly large state owners related to the agribusiness sector.<\/p>\n With the toxic metal lodged in her body, Rios asked UN Council member states to \u201ctake clear measures\u201d to \u201cprevent this ongoing genocide perpetrated by state agents and armed militias.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe are trying to make the violence we are suffering visible not only in our country but also abroad,\u201d Rios told Brasil de Fato<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n