Xavante Campaign

11 November 2026
Xavante Campaign
A participant in front of the campaign projection by Geneva’s illuminated Jet d’Eau.

BRAZIL · A’UWẼ-XAVANTE TERRITORY

Let the Xavante
Keep Dreaming

Defend Ró, the A’uwẽ-Xavante territory.


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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS · BRAZIL
Campaign projection at Lake Geneva

THE RIGHT TO DREAM

To dream, the Xavante say, they need their territory whole.

Among the A’uwẽ-Xavante people of Brazil, dreams are not metaphors.

They are how knowledge travels: Elders receive songs, ceremonies, and guidance for their communities while they sleep.

Now, a federal railway known as Ferrovia de Integração do Centro-Oeste (FICO) is set to cut through it. The Let the A’uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming Campaign exposes a paradox at the heart of global climate policy: infrastructure and mining projects sold as climate solutions are advancing over Indigenous territories without Indigenous consent.

An aerial view of straight clearings cutting through dense vegetation.
Let the A’uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming campaign poster, with illustrated people among a tree and clouds against a blue sky.

THE FICO RAILWAY

A Railway Called “Green,” A Territory Called Home

The Ferrovia de Integração do Centro-Oeste (FICO) is promoted as low-carbon logistics for Brazil’s agribusiness exports. For the A’uwẽ-Xavante, it is something else entirely: a project advancing without genuine Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), threatening the sacred places, waters, and food systems that sustain their ceremonial life.

For the A’uwẽ-Xavante, the territory is the living world that holds their food, their rituals, their memory, and their capacity to dream. Fragmenting the territory, leaders warn, would fragment the people.

Participants hold banners and flags beneath a projected campaign slide in a conference room.
Campaign participants hold banners in Geneva.

LEARN ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN

Reports and stories

ADVOCACY BRIEF

Let the A’uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming

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COP30 ADVOCACY BRIEF

The Price of Green

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NEWS · AUGUST 17, 2026

A’uwẽ-Xavante Leaders Turn Geneva into a Stage for International Denunciation of Megaprojects

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NEWS · JULY 15, 2026

A’uwẽ Xavante Leaders, Communities, Organizations, and Cultural Survival Release “Let the A’uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming” Report at EMRIP

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NEWS · JULY 9, 2026

A’uwẽ-Xavante Leaders Take Brazil’s “Green” Railway to the United Nations

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STAND WITH THE A’UWẼ-XAVANTE PEOPLE

Defend Xavante Territory from Fragmentation by Large-Scale Projects

The A’uwẽ-Xavante People in Brazil are standing up for their rights, territory, and future through the “Let the A’uwẽ-Xavante Keep Dreaming” campaign. They are calling for the suspension of the FICO railway project, which would fragment their ancestral territory, violate their right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and threaten their culture, spirituality, and way of life.

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