News14/02/2018 Inter-American Court recognizes healthy environment as essential for human existence The decision was made in response to a request filed by Colombia in 2016
News09/02/2018 Venezuelan families are attacked in Boa Vista A four-year-old child and its parents were injured in a fire started intentionally in a house inhabited by 13 immigrants
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
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