BELÉM (PA) – Indigenous groups and practitioners of Afro-Brazilian faiths entered the auditorium of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pará’s capital, chanting, drumming and burning incense to prepare the space for the Peoples’ Tribunal against Ecogenocide, launched on Thursday (Nov. 13).
Running through Friday the 14th, the event is organized by the People’s COP, a grassroots movement that counters the official, government- and corporate-oriented COP30—the United Nations climate conference held in Belém until the 21st.
“This country would be worse off without your resistance,” said Felipe Palha, chief prosecutor for the MPF, as he welcomed the assembly. Indigenous leaders, nuns, Afro-Brazilian priestesses, and at-risk communities filled the hall to hear accounts of 21 cases of violations from around the world, with a focus on the Amazon
Chiefs, nuns, Candomblé priestesses and threatened communities packed the audience to hear the testimonies at the People’s Tribunal (Photo: Fernando Martinho/Repórter Brasil).
The cases involve land evictions, territorial disputes, environmental impacts, carbon credit contracts, river dredging, rural violence, and major development projects.
The tribunal, organized by 38 groups—including the Land Pastoral Commission and the Zé Cláudio e Maria Institute—serves as a symbolic and political forum. Here, affected communities testify about abuses before a panel of traditional leaders, scholars, jurists, and human rights organizations.
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Afro-Brazzilian woman were afraid too travel to Belém
One case presented Thursday morning (Nov. 13) focused on the Quilombola Territory of Rosário, on Marajó Island in Pará. Tarcísio Feitosa of Forest & Finance recounted how community ancestors, Afro-Brazilians fleeing slavery on a plantation in the 18th century, marked the territory with four cement pil