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Indigenous peoples nowadays are still facing dramatic impacts that con­stitute the legacy of the colonial period, a legacy that is indeed still unfolding despite the fact that the historical imperial rule has come to an end in the past century. This is due to a variety of reasons, among which the combination between settler States’ interests, corporations and extrac­tivism seldom framed as best interest of the nation. On top of this, anthropocentric climate change is already affecting Indigenous commu­nities around the globe by causing severe impacts which alter the normal functioning of ecosystems and associated natural resources. Furthermore, Indigenous peoples are being systematically targeted by settler States, cor­porations and other private actors when they try to defend their rights to land, or, more generally, their human rights.

In fact, according to the 2021 International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), in 2020, at least 331 Human Rights Defenders were killed—44 of them women. More precisely, 26% of these defenders were working specifically on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and 69% of those killed were also working on land and environmental rights (IWGIA, 2021). In Brazil, the continued attack to Indigenous peoples by the Bolsonaro government has led to the filing of a statement to the International Criminal Court (ICC) of the Hague by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). The statement, presented in August 2021, demanded that the court examine the crimes committed against Indigenous peoples by President Bolsonaro since the start of his term in January 2019, with special attention to the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. APIB demanded justice for what they believe constitutes a case of crime against humanity and inhuman treatment perpetrated by the Brazilian government, a government that is also unable to investigate, prosecute and judge the current government’s conduct.1 Indigenous peo­ples’ rights are being infringed all over the world, with no exception within the different settler States’ contexts, resulting in dramatic loss of lives, territories and resources.