April 25, 2022

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Bruno Pacheco – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The Observatory of Criminal Justice and Indigenous Peoples opened on Friday, 22, a call for papers to compose the Dossier Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice in Latin America, of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib). The document will be published in June 2023 in the Journal Law and Praxis, an academic initiative linked to the research line in Theory and Philosophy of Law of the Postgraduate Program in Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

The publication seeks to bring together research that addresses the state criminal system and access to justice; indigenous justice, legal pluralism and self-determination; and decoloniality and interculturality. The focus, methodologies, and theoretical lines should come from Law, Anthropology, and Sociology.

“The launching of this dossier is in line with the work that the Observatory of Criminal Justice and Indigenous Peoples has been carrying out. The Observatory was created precisely because there is a lack of data regarding indigenous people who are in prison, as well as a lack of respect for the fundamental rights of these peoples,” says Maurício Terena, indigenous lawyer from Apib’s legal department.

Rights violated

To CENARIUM Magazine, Terena recalled this Saturday, 23, that the resolution of the National Council of Justice (CNJ) No. 287, of June 25, 2019, already establishes procedures to the treatment of indigenous people accused, defendants, convicted or deprived of liberty, in addition to giving other guidelines to ensure the rights of this population in the criminal sphere of the Judiciary. The indigenous people have, however, perceived a systemic violation of the CNJ’s regulatory framework, points out the lawyer.

“We have perceived a systemic violation of this regulatory framework of the CNJ. Faced with this brief scenario, we think that the academic field and the production of studies on this theme are also axes of dispute that we, indigenous people, have begun to face. And this dossier is to address these issues regarding access to justice for indigenous peoples,” said Maurício Terena.

Indigenous or non-indigenous

Apib’s Criminal Justice Observatory is an initiative founded in February 2021 with the objective of producing, systematizing and disseminating data, information and analysis on the interaction between indigenous peoples, the state criminal justice system and indigenous justice systems, in addition to promoting the systematic monitoring of human rights violations that make up the areas of violence generated by the criminal prosecution of indigenous peoples in Brazil.

The Dossier Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice in Latin America, which will be published in the magazine Direito e Práxis, will be edited by Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado, Ana Carolina Alfinito and Caíque Ribeiro Galícia. According to lawyer Maurício Terena, interested researchers, indigenous or non-indigenous, should send their article proposals until May 30, 2022.

The e-mail made available for sending the documents is [email protected]. Applicants must comply with the general submission guidelines indicated by the journal. The announcement is available at the link here.

“It is not a rigid call for papers. We want to receive proposals, including from researchers and indigenous leaders. So, it is a notice that is very flexible to contemplate the plurality, the diversity of these peoples,” reinforces lawyer Maurício Terena.