The efforts of federal prosecutors to initiate criminal investigations into past human rights violations marks a crucial moment in Brazil's history, said Amnesty ...
Rural leaders and farmers in a remote area of Amazonas state, northern Brazil, are facing death threats and attacks from illegal loggers and land-grabbers (grileiros ...
The Laranjeira Ñhanderu community can now stay on their ancestral lands, after a court decision suspended an eviction order until the necessary anthropological ...
The acquittal by Brazil's Supreme Court of a man accused of raping three 12-year-old girls on the basis that they were allegedly “sex-workers” is an outrageous ...
The decision to charge a retired colonel for five enforced disappearances committed under Brazil's military dictatorship is the first serious challenge to decades ...