Protecting the Fundamental Right to Preservation of Indigenous Culture in the Light of the Federal Constitution And Supra-Legal of International Treaties Human Rights

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Amanda Lima Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gênero, Sexualidade e Direito
• Texto Completo: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistagsd/article/view/1007
• topic: Fundamental rights, Human rights, Indigenous culture, International treaties, Supra-legal; Direitos fundamentais, Direitos humanos, Cultura indígena, Tratados internacionais, Supralegalidade

This article aims to examine the protection of the fundamental right to the preservation of indigenous culture in the light of the Constitution and international treaties. The Federal Constitution of 1988 broke new ground by providing an extensive range of fundamental rights and guarantees scattered throughout his text, without excluding the fundamental rights not expressed in the Constitution, but flowing from the principles or rules adopted by it, as well as those contained in international treaties to which the Brazilian State is a party. However, indigenous peoples continue to be abused physically and culturally. It appears from the analysis of the decision issued by the Federal Court of the Amazon that the construction of the Trans-Amazon Highway led to the ethnic breakdown of indigenous peoples, the homogenization of cultures, the division of territories and provoking tensions between indigenous groups.