Top Brazil court hears arguments in key indigenous land case

Name: Top Brazil court hears arguments in key indigenous land case
Uploaded: 2021-09-03T13:41:06+00:00
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Description: Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a seminal case over the scope of the constitution's protection of indigenous land. The powerful agribusiness lobby argues that those protections should only apply to territory whose inhabitants were present in 1988, when the constitution was adopted.

Issued on: 03/09/2021 - 15:41

Video by: Shirli SITBON

Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a seminal case over the scope of the constitution's protection of indigenous land. The powerful agribusiness lobby argues that those protections should only apply to territory whose inhabitants were present in 1988, when the constitution was adopted.