CIPÓ, represented by its senior researcher Flávia do Amaral Vieira, participated in the X Pan-Amazonian Social Forum, FOSPA, held in Belém do Pará from July 28 to 31, 2022.
FOSPA is a global event/process that emerged within the scope of the World Social Forum, as a space for the articulation of peoples and social movements for the political and cultural incidence and resistance against the neoliberal, neocolonial, extractive, discriminatory development model. The event in Belém sought to support the struggles and resistance of peoples in all territories of the PanAmazônia.
During the event, CIPÓ was presented in FOSPA’s opening march, which brought together civil society and representatives of the most diverse peoples of the Amazon, as well as participated in session of the International Rights Of Nature Tribunal. This session presented a preliminary report of an investigation carried out with the objective to investigate violations of the rights of nature and of the inhabitants of the Amazon. The delegation of the Tribunal visited the cities of Altamira, Anapu and Marabá, in Pará, between the 18th and 27th of July.
At the closing of the event, the Pan-Amazonian Declaration of Belém was launched.
