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Brazil – Status of International legal instruments

Status of International legal instruments (signatory, ratification): See treaty body sites: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx

  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 24 January, 1992
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women –  1 February, 1984
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 27 March, 1968
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 24 September, 1990
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – 25 July, 2002
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – YES

(Note: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_pt.pdf

-2013, Criticized for lack of adherence to declaration and govt/elite violation of indigenous rights, predominantly through land-grabbing schemes aimed at overtaking resource-rich lands inhabited by indigenous peoples to develop through energy industry (ex. mining, logging, dams on Amazon, etc.)

(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/29/brazil-indigenous-…)

-2015: (http://firstpeoples.org/wp/brazil-disregards-rights-of-indigenous-people…)

-March 2016: Some steps taken towards implementation of the UNDRIP over last 8 years, but overall “extremely worrying regressions in the protection of indigenous peoples' rights”

(http://unsr.vtaulicorpuz.org/site/index.php/statements/123-end-mission-b…)

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