URUCUM
Project – Strengthening the political-organizational autonomy of indigenous peoples is undertaken in partnership with Esplar – Center of Research and Consulting, with 14 ethnicities in Ceará, established in 19 municipalities. The initiative is funded by the European Union. It contributes to strengthen the management skills and capacity of social and political intervention of both the indigenous associations and their three main representatives in Ceará: the Federation of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Ceará (Fepoince), the Organization of Indigenous Teachers of Ceará (Oprince), the Indigenous Women Network of Ceará (Amice), and the Commission of Indigenous Youth of Ceará (Cojice).
Urucum is based on local conferences of indigenist politics, where the collective voices gathered with different ethnicities and were able to overcome the challenges and conflicts for the sake of the highest good of the indigenous cause. To do so, we worked with 300 representative leaderships and the 14 indigenous ethnicities of Ceará.
Objectives:
- To highlight, acknowledge and publicly debate the violation of the indigenous peoples’ rights in Ceará;
- To improve the access to territorial rights and other social rights specifically aimed at indigenous peoples in Ceará, as well as the access to indigenist politics;
- To strengthen the power of the organizations representing Indigenous Peoples in Ceará both in the institutional context and in the promotion and defense of their rights and in the implementation of indigenist politics;
Fields of work: institutional strengthening, indigenous women, the gender question and the youth; affirmation of the indigenous culture.
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