News09/02/2018 Quilombola communities guaranteed right to their lands by Supreme Court The presidential decree that regulates the titling of traditional lands was deemed constitutional in an eight-to-three ruling
News09/02/2018 Supreme Court hears case to overturn pardon Possible annulment of the decree will result in serious harm to detained people in Brazil, which now has the world’s third largest prison population
News08/02/2018 Congress approves Arms Trade Treaty Brazil is one of the world’s least transparent arms producers and it was one of the first countries to sign the agreement, in 2013
News08/02/2018 Organizations challenge in Supreme Court payment of housing allowances for judges The request for participation in the judgment on housing allowances is justified by the impact the payment of this benefit to all judicial personnel will have on the federal budget
News07/02/2018 The back and forth of the slave labor dirty list in Brazil Understand the changes in the regulation of the blacklist in recent years and who is behind the attempts to weaken the mechanism
News02/02/2018 National Human Rights Council approves emergency recommendations on Venezuelan immigrants The document was drafted from an assessment made by the mission that visited five cities in northern Brazil
Joint statement02/02/2018 Civil society calls for more transparency in environmental issues in Brazil