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WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS?
Author(s) -
Bonino José Míguez
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
international review of mission
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1758-6631
pISSN - 0020-8582
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6631.1977.tb01209.x
Subject(s) - statute , law , amazon rainforest , human rights , race (biology) , identity (music) , political science , criminology , ethnology , sociology , history , religious studies , gender studies , philosophy , aesthetics , ecology , biology
Indians, particularly in Amazonia, are being dispossessed of … their lands … Under these conditions, the “Statute of the Indian” becomes “dead letter” … It is not surprising, therefore, that Indians are led to feel ashamed of their race… The poor and defenceless are those who fill the jails, where they are frequently tortured, accused of not having identity documents, or arrested in the course of police “razzias”. “Pastoral Letter to the People of God ” The Episcopal Conference of Brazil, October 25, 1976.