‘We made it’: tears of joy as Brazil backs Indigenous land rights

Brazil’s supreme court has blocked efforts to dramatically strip back Indigenous land rights in what activists called a historic victory for the South American country’s original inhabitants. Nine of the court’s 11 members voted against what rights groups had dubbed the ‘time limit trick’ – an agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent Indigenous communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1998

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win