An international meeting in Vienna discussed how to protect human rights. Indigenous groups were under represented. However, it was recommended that a permanent commission be created to oversee the rights of indigenous groups.
Indigenous communities that are threatened by the construction of the Hidrovia industrial waterway project on the Paraguay River are standing against its completion.
The Brazilian 1988 constitution expired October 1993 and is due to be revised. If it is revised, negative public attitudes indicate that there is reason for indigenous populations to worry that they will lose rights granted to them under the 1988…