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Courts, COVID-19, and the Indigenous People: A Brazilian Supreme Court Case

Courts, COVID-19, and the Indigenous People: A Brazilian Supreme Court Case

Hermes Zaneti Junior, Edilson Santana Gonçalves Filho, Vinícius Henrique Rodrigues, Fabiane Costa Nascimento
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781799874805|ISBN10: 179987480X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799874812|EISBN13: 9781799874829
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7480-5.ch006
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Junior, Hermes Zaneti, et al. "Courts, COVID-19, and the Indigenous People: A Brazilian Supreme Court Case." Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, edited by Haris Abd Wahab, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 83-98. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7480-5.ch006

APA

Junior, H. Z., Santana Gonçalves Filho, E., Rodrigues, V. H., & Nascimento, F. C. (2021). Courts, COVID-19, and the Indigenous People: A Brazilian Supreme Court Case. In H. Wahab, J. Chowdhury, S. Ah, & M. Mohd Saad (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future (pp. 83-98). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7480-5.ch006

Chicago

Junior, Hermes Zaneti, et al. "Courts, COVID-19, and the Indigenous People: A Brazilian Supreme Court Case." In Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, edited by Haris Abd Wahab, et al., 83-98. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7480-5.ch006

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Abstract

The present study aims to analyze how the government and the Brazilian Supreme Court are dealing specifically with the situation of indigenous people in the global pandemic scenario of COVID-19. The Brazilian indigenous people, a group vulnerable and marginalized, face specific and even greater problems in the fight against coronavirus for several historic reasons, such as the existence of trespassers in their lands, logistics for the treatment of the disease in remote locations, and misleadings and failures, commissive and omissive, in public policies, potentialized for the socio-epidemiological characteristics of the group. This study will turn to the analysis of the constitutional remedy filed by Articulation of Indigenous People of Brazil (ADPF 709) and the Brazilian Supreme Court structural injunction relief with the objective that the government take specific measures to protect the indigenous people in the global pandemic scenario. The Court ruled to establishing sanitary barriers, determining a situation room and a mixed monitoring committee, among another measures.

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