News09/12/2016 “No compassion” UN says Amendment 55 will place Brazil in a “socially retrogressive category all of its own”
News08/12/2016 IACHR expresses concern with Amendment 55 Measure could place rights to health and education at risk, say commissioners
Joint statement06/12/2016 Hydroelectric dams in the Amazon Conectas participates in public hearing in Lower House of Congress on social and environmental impact of large-scale projects
News06/12/2016 Lower house approves new immigration law Text represents progress against discrimination and criminalization of immigrants living in Brazil
News06/12/2016 Fabricated image In a hearing in the Lower House of Congress, government presents report on human rights that is divorced from reality; document to be sent to UN
News05/12/2016 Brazil denounced in OAS for cuts in health and education Seventeen organizations claim government and legislature are pushing through measures that threaten the Constitution and international treaties
Joint statement05/12/2016 National Committee to Combat and Prevent Torture Organizations call for haste in the appointment of committee members
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