EVENT INFORMATION

20
November
2003

Decree 4,887 establishes a process for collective quilombola land titles

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📅 20 November 2003 📍 Brazil

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 communities’ historical trajectories and territorial relations. The rule made a constitutional right more actionable, but administrative delay, competing land claims and litigation continued to constrain implementation.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

quilombola communities

Organizations in this Event

INCRA

Ministry of Agrarian Development

Fundação Cultural Palmares