Conectas releases Yearbook 2009/2010
3rd issue reports on Brazil's actions in the international human rights system
04/10/2010
Conectas Human Rights has released its Yearbook 2009/10 – Human Rights: Brazil in the UN, the result of the monitoring of Brazilian foreign policy in the field of human rights by Conectas.
The publication is the work of the Foreign Policy and Human Rights Project, whose mission is to promote the prevalence of human rights in the foreign policy of Brazil and other Global South countries by strengthening citizen participation and democratic control.
The Yearbook is intended to facilitate access to information on the actions of Brazil in the international human rights system, considering that access to information is a prerequisite for civil society organizations, universities and other political actors to get involved with this issue.
Accordingly, this third issue of the Yearbook provides a review of Brazil’s role in the main human rights forums and mechanisms of the United Nations in 2009 and part of 2010. Readers will find the positions taken by Brazil in the General Assembly and in the Human Rights Council (HRC), as well as current information and data on the country’s obligations arising the ratification of international treaties and recommendations received on the subject of human rights.
This latest issue also addresses Brazil’s participation in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, listing the recommendations, questions and comments directed at other countries that are going through the review process. The publication also highlights the visit to Brazil by Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and by the Nigerian diplomat Martin Uhomoibhi, who was president of the Human Rights Council at the time.
Together with this publication, we are sending the document Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Commitments for the Candidates for the Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil 2010, which was endorsed by the candidates running in this year’s presidential elections. This was an initiative of the Brazilian Human Rights and Foreign Policy Committee, a coalition of which Conectas is part and which supports the Yearbook.
Click here to download the full digital version of the the Yearbook 2009/10.
To access the digital version of executive summary of Yearbook 2010, click here: Portuguese and English.
