Law No. 14.021 providing for social protection measures to prevent the contagion and dissemination of Covid-19 in indigenous territories; creating the Emergency Plan to Fight Covid-19 in indigenous territories; establishing measures to support quilombola communities, artisanal fisherfolks and other traditional peoples and communities to face Covid-19.
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Abstract
This Law, consisting of six Chapters, provides for social protection measures to prevent the contagion and dissemination of Covid-19 in indigenous territories; creates the Emergency Plan to Fight Covid-19 in indigenous territories; and establishes measures to support quilombola communities, artisanal fisherfolks and other traditional peoples and communities to face Covid-19. In particular, it establishes sanitary and epidemiological surveillance measures to prevent the contagion and spread of Covid-19 in indigenous territories, provides for food security actions, provides for actions related to isolated indigenous peoples during the Covid-19 period, stipulates measures to support quilombola communities, artisanal fisherfolks and other traditional peoples and communities, in order to ensure the provision of additional resources in emergency situations. The provisions of this Law cover: isolated and recently contacted indigenous people; indigenous villages; indigenous people living outside indigenous lands, in urban or rural areas; indigenous peoples and groups that are in the country in a situation of migration or temporary transnational mobility; quilombolas; quilombolas who, due to studies, academic activities or the treatment of their health, are residing outside quilombola communities; artisanal fisherfolks; other traditional peoples and communities. The Law is divided as follows: Preliminary provisions (Chap. I); Emergency Plan to Fight Covid-19 in indigenous territories (Chap. II); Food and Nutritional Security (Chap. III); Isolated and recently contacted indigenous people (Chap. IV); Assistance to quilombola Communities, Artisanal Fisherfolks and to other traditional peoples and communities to face Covid-19 (Chap. V); Final provisions (Chap. VI).
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This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
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English
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Lei n. 14.021 - Dispõe sobre medidas de proteção social para prevenção do contágio e da disseminação da Covid-19 nos territórios indígenas; cria o Plano Emergencial para Enfrentamento à Covid-19 nos territórios indígenas; estipula medidas de apoio às comunidades quilombolas, aos pescadores artesanais e aos demais povos e comunidades tradicionais para o enfrentamento à Covid-19; e altera a Lei nº 8.080, de 19 de setembro de 1990, a fim de assegurar aporte de recursos adicionais nas situações emergenciais e de calamidade pública.