EVENT INFORMATION

5
Òktober
1989

Brazil promulgates a constitution recognizing quilombo land rights

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📅 5 Òktober 1989 📍 Brazil

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 present-day territorial rights to histories of flight, maroon communities, and resistance to slavery.

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Constituent Assembly

quilombola communities

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Federal Republic of Brazil