Transitional Justice for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

About this project

The project will expand the digital collection of the online platform “Centro de Referência Virtual Indígena” (Virtual Indigenous Reference Centre), which currently holds 2.307.000 pages worth of scanned and indexed documents, with an additional 2 million scanned pages from the archives of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and selected batches from Congress (archives of the House of Representatives and Federal Senate), civil society organisations and others. A team of 7 indigenous students, selected and trained in digital collection research through a cooperation agreement between the project proponent and the University of Brasilia (UnB), will monitor political and judicial processes and carry out studies to subsidise selected cases, using the “Centro de Referência Virtual Indígena” as a main source of information. Through the aforementioned activities and in dialogue with Brazil’s national umbrella organisations for Indigenous Peoples (APIB), the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI), and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF), the project will seek to advance the case for Transitional Justice for IPs in Brazil. The project contributes to securing the Brazilian legal framework regarding indigenous rights and to advance land regularization and demarcation. In Brazil, indigenous lands are champions in protecting standing forest and as such, a vital component in climate change mitigation. The project also has an important gender component, emphasizing the contracting of fe…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 5Gender Equality
• 10Reduced Inequalities
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land
• 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Published by

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation · Government

Countries

Brazil

Sectors

Legal and judicial development

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Main focusBiodiversity · Main focusClimate mitigation · Also contributes

Funded by

Norwegian Government

Implemented by

IPR - Instituto de Políticas Relacionais

Passes funds through

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Embassies

Published by Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 24 Jan 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NO-BRC-971277882-BRA-23/0018.

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