Amnesty International today urged the Brazilian authorities to act proportionately and within the law in their response to the wave of criminal gang violence that ...
Flaviano Pinto Neto, a leader of the Charco community in Maranhão state, north-east Brazil, was shot dead on 30 October. Manoel Santana Costa, another leader of ...
Thirty-five Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous families of the Laranjeira Ñanderu community, including around 85 children, are living in makeshift shacks by the side of ...
The community of Restinga is in imminent risk of forced eviction due to the construction of a highway in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro. After months ...
Approximately 80 members of the Guarani Kaiowá Y'poí Indigenous group in Brazil have been threatened by armed men hired by local farm owners. They have been prevented ...
Alexandre Anderson de Souza, the president of the Associação dos Homens do Mar (AHOMAR, a fishermen's association), has received a series of threats related to ...
Economic, social and cultural rights are enshrined in the universal Declaration of Human rights and in various treaties, including the International Covenant on ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 20 August 2010. AI Index: AMR 19/010/2010. The Brazilian High Court of Justice faces historic decision on human rights. ...
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