📅 5 October 1989
Article 68 of the Constitution’s Transitional Provisions recognizes definitive land ownership for descendants of quilombo communities who occupy their lands. This constitutional claim linked...
📅 10 September 2001
Decree 3,912 set federal procedures for recognition and titling and tied eligibility to occupation on 5 October 1988, the date of the Constitution’s promulgation. This restrictive time test narrowed...
📅 20 November 2003
Decree 4,887 regulated identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation and titling of quilombola lands. It adopted self-identification as a starting point and defined territories through...
📅 20 November 2003
Decree 4,883 transferred federal responsibility for delimiting quilombola lands from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Agrarian Development. The change placed the process within a land and...
📅 24 March 2004
INCRA Normative Instruction 16 set administrative steps for identifying, recognizing, delimiting, demarcating and titling quilombola lands. It began translating the 2003 decree into an agency process....
📅 19 September 2005
Normative Instruction 20 again regulated identification and titling, adding procedures for demarcation, removal of conflicting occupants and registration. Repeated rule-making reflected real...
📅 8 February 2018
The Supreme Federal Court rejected the challenge to Decree 4,887 in ADI 3239. By upholding self-identification and the federal titling framework, the Court affirmed a legal route for implementing...
📅 11 September 2020
The National Coordination of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), joined by political parties, filed ADPF 742. The petition challenged federal omissions and demanded measures to protect...
📅 24 February 2021
In ADPF 742, the Supreme Federal Court ordered the federal government to prepare and implement measures for quilombola communities, including a specific plan addressing the pandemic. The decision...
📅 21 March 2023
Decree 11,447 instituted the Aquilomba Brasil Program and its governing committee to coordinate federal measures for quilombola rights. Its intersectoral mandate includes territory, infrastructure,...
📅 20 November 2023
Decree 11,786 established the National Policy for Quilombola Territorial and Environmental Management (PNGTAQ). It recognizes territories as foundations for physical, social, cultural, economic and...
📅 20 November 2003
Decree 4,887 regulates identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation and titling of lands occupied by quilombola communities, many formed by people who escaped enslavement and their...
