Between 2 and 8 August 2025, over 7,000 indigenous women from more than 100 different communities took to the streets of Brasilia during the 4th Indigenous Women’s March, organised by the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), as Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November. Dressed in traditional clothing and hairstyles, the women held up signs reading ‘guardians of the planet’.
Much more than a march, the gathering was a shared space for listening, denouncing, spirituality and collective action. Together, the women shared their pain and struggles, strengthened alliances and reaffirmed that their bodies are also contested territories and must therefore be protected with the same urgency as their ancestral lands.
This year, in fact, the event took on an international dimension with the creation of the Ancestral Space of Global Resistance on 5 and 6 August, paving the way for exchanges between indigenous women from different countries and cultures to articulate global voices in defence of climate justice, women’s rights, traditional knowledge and life on Earth.
As the Minister for Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, emphasised: “The theme of this march is our bodies, our territory, we are guardians of the planet for the care of the Earth, bearing in mind that COP30 is also approaching, to be held in November in Belém do Pará”.
The mobilisation called for a total presidential veto on the “devastation” bill, as well as the demarcation of lands, inclusive education that respects the culture and knowledge of indigenous peoples, an end to violence against indigenous women and their peoples, climate justice and recognition of the ancestral wisdom of indigenous women.
From the website gov.br Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
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IV Marcha das Mulheres Indígenas, rumo ao Congresso Nacional. Crédito: © Pedro Ladeira / Greenpeace
Abertura da IV Marcha das Mulheres Indígenas, em Brasília (Fotos: Washington Costa/MPI/2025).
