By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court is expected to rule next week against attempts by the country's powerful farm lobby to ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSBRASILIA - Brazil's Supreme Court is expected to rule next week against attempts by the country's powerful farm lobby to limit land claims by Indigenous peoples to areas they occupied before 1988.
"At least two more justices are expected to vote against it next week," said Juliana de Paula, a lawyer for the Socio-Environmental Institute ISA, a nonprofit organization that defends Indigenous interests. Brazilian farm interests want to establish the cut-off date to secure non-Indigenous farmers' claim to lands they have settled in Brazil's expanding agricultural frontier.
Indigenous leaders say the Supreme Court decision is crucial for the resolution of some 300 pending land recognition claims that would protect their communities from land-grabbers and invasions by illegal loggers and wildcat gold miners.
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