In thousands of favelas throughout Brazil, whole communities are living trapped in poverty and excluded from a whole range of services.. Criminal gangs now control ...
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day inwhich journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasingnumbers of their colleagues ...
TheDeclaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework forprogress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and
The Pará Court’s decision to reopen the case of the killing of nun Dorothy Stang offers a rare opportunity for justice in a state where human rights defen.
Amnesty International welcomes the submission to the National Congress of draft legislation to implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The ...
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 ...
