Photo: Wilson Dias, Agência Brasil | Wikimedia Commons
In a landmark decision that could bolster Indigenous land rights in Brazil, its highest court has agreed to review a past case that had stopped mapping of an Indigenous territory in 2014. The judges accepted an appeal by the Guarani Kaiow, whose claim to Guyrarok land was paralyzed by the ruling, because the community did not have input. Although the territory was recognized as Indigenous in 2004, the court had denied their claim because they were not living on the land when the Brazilian constitution came into force in 1988.
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