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Human Rights in FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL

Brazil: Eighth session of the UN Human Rights Council, 2-20 June ...
1 June 2008

During this review, a number of states raised key human rights concerns, which Amnesty International shares, including continuing impunity for crimes committed ...

Document       AMR 19/009/2008

Brazil: Further information on fear for safety
12 May 2008

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 19/007/2008

the Wire, May 2008. Vol. 38, No. 4
1 May 2008

1) Mauritania's 'Guantanamito' 2) Leave or be killed 3) 3 May – World Press Freedom Day: Zimbabwe – Radio Dialogue: still denied a licence; Azerbaijan – heightened ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2008

Brazil: Women's lives shattered by public security crisis in ...
17 April 2008

In a new report published today, Amnesty International revealed the untold stories of women who are forced to live, bring up their children and fight for justice ...

Press Release      

‘La policía sólo viene a recoger a los muertos´.
17 April 2008

‘La policía sólo viene a recoger a los muertos´.

Document       AMR 19/003/2008

Brazilian women's lives shattered | Amnesty International
17 April 2008

Women in Brazil are finding themselves left to pick up the pieces following criminal and police violence in shanty-towns.

Report Abstract      

NOSOTRAS RECOGEMOS LOS PLATOS ROTOS. La experiencia de la ...
17 April 2008

NOSOTRAS RECOGEMOS LOS PLATOS ROTOS. La experiencia de la violencia urbana para las mujeres de Brasil

Report       AMR 19/001/2008

'The Police only come to collect the bodies'
17 April 2008

Women in Brazil's excluded communities are struggling to live their lives and fight for justice against a backdrop of criminal and police violence, discrimination ...

Document       AMR 19/003/2008

Brazil: Picking up the pieces: Women's experience of urban ...
17 April 2008

This report provides a glimpse of what life is like for women in many parts of Brazil today. In socially excluded communities women live out their lives against ...

Report       AMR 19/001/2008

Abuse, intimdation and rape. Women's experience of urban violence ...
17 April 2008

Women have long been the hidden victims of Brazil's crumbling justice system. Women in excluded communities experience violence and intimidation at the hands of ...

Document       AMR 19/004/2008