Marcelo Freixo, a human rights defender and state government deputy, is heading a parliamentary inquiry into the activities of milícias in Rio de Janeiro's shanty ...
Trade unionist Joinville Frota escaped an attempt on his life on 23 August 2008, and has gone into hiding with his family. He is the head of the trade union ...
Press freedom and the protection of human rights is being jeopardised by the brutal actions of criminal gangs made up of off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro ...
During this review, a number of states raised key human rights concerns, which Amnesty International shares, including continuing impunity for crimes committed ...
Around 50 Guajajara indigenous families, in the remote Araribóia reservation in the central west of Maranhão state, are at risk of attack from local gunmen allegedly ...
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