Brazil: From burning buses to caveir�es : the search for human security (Postcard)

Index Number: AMR 19/001/2007
Date Published: 1 April 2007
Categories: Americas, Brazil

This postcard, addressed to Governor S�rgio Cabra, asks that he keep his election promise to the end of the use of the armoured vehicles known as the "caveir�o" and "pacifier", symbols of a discriminatory public security policy which discriminate and criminalises poverty.