Americas
September 29, 2023
Brazil: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This submission focuses on the right to self-determination of Indigenous peoples, access to adequate health care including sexual and reproductive health services, comprehensive sexuality education, government-endorsed online learning, the protection of education from attacks, and the rights of persons with disabilities.
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“The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes”
Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation
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“We Must Ask for What Is Already Ours”
Afro-descendant Women and Access to Land in Alto Mira y Frontera, Colombia
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“They Can Harass Us Because of the Laws”
Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Indigenous Peoples Secure Decisive Victory in Brazil
Supreme Court’s Crucial Decision Upholds Land Rights
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Brazil: Disability Plan Should End Warehousing
Plan should focus on independence, not institutionalization
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Rising Seas, Broken Promises in Panama
Plans to Relocate Indigenous Community from Flood-Prone Island Delayed
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Venezuela: “Softer Tactics” Continues Crackdown on Dissent
HRW Oral Statement - ID with the Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela - HRC54
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Memoriais Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade nº 5170
O Estado brasileiro é civilmente responsável por danos morais causados a detentos submetidos a condições sub-humanas, insalubres, degradantes ou de superlotação
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Nicaragua: Bold Action Needed to Press for a Democratic Transition
HRW Oral Statement - ID on the High Commissioner Report on Nicaragua - HRC54
