Supreme court justice votes to remove obstacles to demarcation, protect isolated peoples, and prevent the use of historical vulnerabilities against territorial rights
Court dismisses the five-year statute of limitations in a public civil lawsuit filed by the São Paulo State Prosecution Office and determined that São Paulo state courts should analyze the requests for accountability and reparations
Court analyzes whether the May Crimes constitute severe human rights violations, which would eliminate the statute of limitations on State accountability
Civil society defends that the IDB’s South Connection Program should incorporate, since its planning stage, transparency, social participation, socio-environmental protection, and respect towards human and socio-environmental rights, in addition to criteria to avoid violations associated with major infrastructure projects
In a public civil lawsuit filed in 2014 by Conectas, the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) acknowledges that humiliating strip searches in prisons are a violation of fundamental rights and sentences the State of São Paulo to pay 1 million BRL for collective pain and suffering