The Brazilian Supreme Court’s vote in favour of the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation is a victory for all Indigenous Peoples in the country, said Amnesty International today.
However, the organization warned that delays in delivering a final ruling on the case – scheduled for next year – means that large-scale rice farmers, who are illegally [...]

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Amnesty International is concerned by attempts to criminalise land activists by elements within Brazil’s criminal justice system, undermining their fight for agrarian reform and violating their fundamental human rights.
These concerns follow a series of fabricated judicial measures against land activists in a number of states. In Rio Grande do Sul prosecutors and military police have [...]

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Press freedom and the protection of human rights is being jeopardised by the brutal actions of criminal gangs made up of off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro, said Amnesty International, as reports emerged of the kidnap and torture of a team of reporters by a para-policing group, known locally as milicias.
“Amnesty International welcomes [...]

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Women in Brazil are finding themselves left to pick up the pieces following criminal and police violence in shanty-towns.
Stories of urban violence in Brazil tend to focus on young men. Though men make up the bulk of the victims and perpetrators, the stories of women who are forced to live, bring up their children and [...]

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