News22/01/2019 In Davos, Bolsonaro ignores letter from the UN and the constitution and talks about “actual human rights” In a vague yet objective speech, the president focused on environmental conservation without referring to indigenous reserves and climate change
News21/01/2019 Organisations condemn Doria’s veto of a bill to fight torture in Sao Paulo prisons A joint note has been signed by around 50 institutions that work with human rights and the prison system
News18/01/2019 Bolsonaro government announces continuity in reception of venezuelan refugees A committee of ministers is in Roraima to assess migrant conditions
Public Statement17/01/2019 Right to protest: arbitrary repression in São Paulo São Paulo military police behaves in a truculent manner in a protest against an increase in public transport fares
Joint statement15/01/2019 Rede Justiça Criminal regrets statute that facilitates gun ownership in Brazil It is deeply erroneous to think that people will be safer as a result of gun ownership
News09/01/2019 “Race and Human Rights” is the theme of the latest editionof the Sur Journal The free online publication has a mini-doc, works from the exhibition “Afro-Atlantic Histories” and articles by some of the principal activists in the fight against racism in Brazil and around the world.
News09/01/2019 Bolsonaro government leaves UN Global Compact for Migration Decision could affect the approximately three million Brazilians who live overseas.
News08/01/2019 Lima Group calls for democratic order to be restored in Venezuela The declaration ratifies commitment to receiving migrants and asylum seekers, comprehensively, across the region.
Indigenous peoples and human rights NGOS challenge the dismantling of environmental licensing at the Federal Supreme Court
Public statement – Conviction of those responsible for the attempted coup against Brazilian democracy