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Brazil: “Pancadaria não educa”- will Brazil finally end ...
27 February 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. 27 February 2008. AMR 19/006/2008. Brazil: “Pancadaria não educa”- will Brazil finally end torture? ...

Document       AMR 19/006/2008

Brazil: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: First ...
28 November 2007

In this submission, Amnesty International raises concern over shortcomings in the creation and implementation of human rights related legislation, including in ...

Report       AMR 19/023/2007

Brazil: Prison rape exposes increasing abuse of women
23 November 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: AMR 19/022/2007 (Public). News Service No: 227. 23 November 2007. Brazil: Prison rape ...

Press Release       AMR 19/022/2007

Brazil: Death threats/Fear for safety: Brother Henri de Rosiers
21 November 2007

According to the non-governmental organization 'Pastoral Land Commission', the Xinguara Military Police have said that three men were hired to kill Brother Henri ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/021/2007

Brazil: Fear for safety/Sexual Violence
6 November 2007

The Guarani Kaiow community of Nhanderu Marangatu in the Antonio Jo o municipality, Mato Grosso do Sul state, are in imminent risk of danger. Around 30 private ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/020/2007

Brazil: Fear for safety
25 October 2007

The lives of around 200 agricultural workers occupying a farm near the town of Santa Teresa do Oeste in Paraná state, southern Brazil, are in imminent danger. The ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/019/2007

Brazil: Fear for safety
23 October 2007

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/018/2007

Brazil: Amnesty International welcomes ruling in indigenous land ...
29 August 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: AMR 19/017/2007 (Public). News Service No: 166. 29 August 2007. Brazil: Amnesty International ...

Press Release       AMR 19/017/2007

Brazil: Fear for safety
22 August 2007

Aurina Rodrigues Santana, her husband Rodson da Silva Rodrigues and her son Paulo Rodrigo Rodrigues Santana Braga were shot dead on 14 August while they slept in ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/016/2007

The Wire, August 2007. Vol. 37, No. 7
1 August 2007

1) Iraqis flee to Syria to escape violence 2) Displaced people denied rights in Azerbaijan 3) Whereabouts unknown - thousands still missing worldwide 30 August ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/007/2007