Amazonas records the highest number of deaths of indigenous children in the country, according to a Cimi report

Murders and suicides of indigenous people in Amazonas In addition to infant mortality, Amazonas also had the highest number of suicides among indigenous people in 2025. There were 77 cases, according to Cimi. The state was ahead of Mato Grosso do Sul, with 42, and Roraima, with 37. In Brazil, 215 indigenous suicides were recorded last year. The report also points out that Amazonas had 47 murders of indigenous people in 2025, second only to Roraima, which recorded 82 cases. In Brazil, there were 258 murders, a number 22% higher than that recorded in 2024. In addition to the 258 murders, the report counted 38 attempted murders, 46 cases of racism and ethnic-cultural discrimination, 33 cases of bodily harm, 25 cases of sexual violence, 27 threats, 18 death threats and 19 cases of abuse of power. Added to other records classified by Cimi as violence against people, there were 474 occurrences in 2025. Conflicts over land grow Cimi also identified an increase in conflicts related to territorial rights. There were 169 cases in 23 states, affecting 143 Indigenous Lands. According to the report, two thirds of the affected territories had some pending regularization or were still awaiting action from the State for the demarcation process. The publication also counted 210 cases of possessory invasion, illegal exploitation of natural resources and other damage to property, which affected at least 151 Indigenous Lands in 20 states. In this case, most of the affected territories were already regularized: 88 indigenous lands, or 58.3% of the total. In total, the chapter on violence against property contains 1,276 records: 897 related to omissions and delays in regularizing land, 169 conflicts relating to territorial rights and 210 cases of invasions, illegal exploitation of natural resources and other damages. Land demarcations Of the 1,443 indigenous lands and territorial claims recorded by Cimi in the country, 897 still depend on some administrative measure for regularization. Within this group, 582 did not take any action to begin the demarcation process. In 2025, nine Indigenous Lands had identification and delimitation reports published by Funai, ten received declaratory orders from the Ministry of Justice, seven were approved and five were registered as Union assets, concluding the land regularization process. The report also relates the scenario recorded in 2025 to political and legal disputes involving the territorial rights of indigenous peoples, including Law 14,701/2023, known as the Temporal Framework Law. Asurini indigenous child watches the film during a screening held by Curta Xingu in April 2023 Disclosure