GENOCIDE AND NECROPOLITICS:

THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS THE FAILURE OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the crisis faced by Brazilian indigenous peoples, with an emphasis on recent reports from 2023 on more than 570 child deaths in the last five years in Yanomami villages, caused by malaria and other preventable diseases, worsened by malnutrition. The central problem of the research is: to what extent have the fundamental rights of indigenous people, guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, been systematically denied, resulting in a silent, progressive and effective massacre, configuring itself as necropolitics in the Brazilian scenario? The initial hypothesis, based on data and the bibliography consulted, is that Brazilian indigenous people are being subjected to a form of genocide with a necropolitical bias. To achieve the general objective, the research has the following specific objectives: a) analyze, based on existing studies, the deaths of Brazilian indigenous people, focusing on the Yanomami Peoples; b) evaluate public policies and institutional responses that failed to mitigate the crisis and the consequences of necropolitical practices on the lives and health of indigenous peoples and their implications for social justice and human rights. Regarding methodological aspects, the theoretical work observed the hypothetical-deductive method of approach, through the procedure of bibliographical and documentary research with indirect data collection and legal interpretation with a sociological bias.