“Forced eviction infringing upon Brazil’s Constitution and UN Declaration imminent-With no access to their legitimate territory, the members of the Guarani and Kaiowá Apyka'i community will be prevented from exercising their fundamental rights as indigenous peoples, including feeding themselves adequately.”, 13 June 2016

...Mid-May, the…[1st Federal Court of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul]…issued the provisional enforcement to evict the Guarani and Kaiowá Apyka'i community from a piece of land they recovered…in 2014, as part their legitimate territory. On June 9, the order was officially communicated to the leader of the community, Damiana, and a representative of FUNAI (the Brazilian governmental protection agency for indigenous issues)…As echoed in a…statement by national civil society groups and social movements, the struggle of Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous peoples to exercise their legitimate right to land has been long-lasting and widespread in Mato Grosso do Sul…[They have]…been repeatedly evicted from their territory…,…[which is]…far from enough to produce food,…[and]…lies between a sugar-cane field and streams of water contaminated with agrochemicals on one side and a highway on the other. …[R]epossession, death threats, attacks, lack of access to health and education and an unfulfilled right to food and nutrition have been part of…[their]…daily life…FIAN…condemns the eviction and…calls on the European Union…to send observers to monitor that national authorities respect UN principles on displacement when executing the eviction…