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Pataxo Hahahae Indigenous Community |
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| What is affected |
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| Type of violation |
Dispossession/confiscation |
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| Date | 24 January 2006 | ||||||||||
| Region | LAC [ Latin America/Caribbean ] | ||||||||||
| Country | Brazil | ||||||||||
| Location | Bahia State1 | ||||||||||
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| Proposed solution | Enforce December 2008 Supreme Court decision. | ||||||||||
| Details |
AI-BRA-0306.doc Denuncia Pataxo Hahahae.doc |
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| Development |
Pataxo Hahahae.doc1
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| Brief narrative |
BRAZIL: About 500 members of the Pataxo Hahahae indigenous community. Members of the Pataxo Hahahae indigenous community are no longer in danger of forced eviction as they voluntarily left the seven farms they were occupying in the Alegrias region in Bahia state in mid-April. (UA 62/06 issued 16 March 2006, reissued 2 May 2006, June 2006 UA USA Newsletter, 3, at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent/nl0606.pdf. In December 2008, the Brazilian Supreme Court upheld the Pataxo Hahahaes` claim to their ancestral lands, restoring 54,100 hectares territories lost to immigrant farmers. | ||||||||||
| Costs | € 0 | ||||||||||
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