On 12 February, around 25 civil police officers stormed the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous village of Passo Piraju, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south-western ...
An Amnesty International delegation will take part in the 2009 World Social Forum – to be held in Belem, Brazil between 27 January and 1 February. The delegation
After receiving a series of threats, Katia Camargo and her two children entered a witness protection programme on 5 January 2009. They are no longer believed to ...
José Luís da Silva, his wife Severina dos Santos Silva and their 25-year-old daughter Edisandra, have received death threats in relation to a court case brought ...
Investigative journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon, who had reported on official corruption, was murdered in May 2007. Local military police officers have been arrested ...
Federal police officers attempting to detain indigenous chief Rosival Ferreira da Silva, known as ´"Babau," have used excessive force against his family and other ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: AMR 19/012/2008. 21 October 2008. Brazil: Swiss multinational turns over contested land to state authorities. ...
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