Media Advisory

5 July 2000

AI Index AMR 19/017/2000 - News Service Nr. 131

Press Briefing

Brazil: "A Waste of Lives -- FEBEM juvenile detention centres, São Paulo"

A new Amnesty International report examining the current crisis in São Paulo's juvenile detention system, FEBEM, will be launched at a press briefing in London on Wednesday 12 July.

The report evaluates the authorities' response to the human rights violations at the root of the crisis, and, ten years after the launch of Brazil's much-feted Statute of the Child and Adolescent, undertakes a critical assessment of the application of this progressive legislation to young offenders.

Details:

11:00 am, Wednesday 12 July 2000

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

1 Easton Street, London WC1X ODW

(in the conference room)

The document will be introduced by Julia Rochester, Researcher on Brazil (who will be available to give interviews in English and Portuguese).

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For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566

Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW web : http://www.amnesty.org