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April 16, 2017 Commentary

Brazilian Congressman Who Lauds Alleged Torturer Lectures Police Trainees

Os deputados Jair Bolsonaro e Eduardo Bolsonaro falam com a imprensa.
March 31, 2017 Dispatches

Video Shows Rio Police Executing Two Men

Police Abuses Fuel the Cycle of Violence in Brazil

Policemen patrol the Rocinha Slum in Rio de Janeiro on September 14, 2012.
March 22, 2017 Commentary

How Brazil Facilitates Gang Recruitment

Brazil needs to Explain its Prison Failures Before Inter-American Commission

The inside of the Penitenciária Agrícola de Monte Cristo prison in Roraima state, Brazil, seen through a hole in the wall in 2016.
March 18, 2017 Commentary

Killer Goalkeeper’s Release Exposes Brazil's Deadly Domestic Violence

Women hold pictures of victims that died of domestic abuse against women, during a march to celebrate International Women's Day in Sao Paulo March 8, 2014.
March 17, 2017 Report

Yemen: Cluster Munitions Wound Children

Brazil Should Stop Producing Banned Weapon, Join Ban Treaty

Photo of part of the bursting mechanism from an ASTROS cluster munition rocket lies where it reportedly landed at Qahza, Saada governorate on February 22, 2017.
March 9, 2017 News Release

Brazil: Military Police Muzzled

Laws Used to Suppress Calls for Police Reform

Military police riot control the protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in São Paulo, Brazil. September 4, 2016
March 6, 2017 Commentary

Brazil’s Illegal Treatment of Women in Prison

Painted fingernails of an inmate in the Women's Prison of Brasilia, Brazil, August 3, 2011.
February 16, 2017 Letter

Rio de Janeiro: Act Against Police Abuse

Letter to the Rio de Janeiro Attorney General

Policemen patrol the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro on September 14, 2012.
January 27, 2017 News Release

Brazil: Wave of Killings in North

Shootings Appear to Be Retaliation for Police Officer’s Killing

A night view of the city of Belem in northern Brazil, January 11, 2012.
January 18, 2017 Commentary

Brazil’s Correctional Houses of Horror

Recent Mass Killings Show the Need for Reform

Penitenciária Agro-Industrial São João
January 12, 2017 News Release

Brazil: Police Abuses Feed Cycle of Violence

Unlawful Killings Undermine Security, Endanger Officers

A military police armored vehicle passes by a person killed by police on April 7, 2016 in the Jacarezinho favela. Military police killed two other people during the same raid. © 2016 Carlos Cout
January 8, 2017 Commentary

Criminal Gangs Run Brazil’s Prisons

A relative of a prisoner holds a local newspaper, which shows a headline about a deadly prison riot, in front of Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, Brazil, on January 3, 2017.
January 4, 2017 News Release

Brazil: Regain Control of Prison System

Protect Prisoners from Violence Behind Bars

A relative of a prisoner holds a local newspaper, which shows a headline about a deadly prison riot, in front of Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, Brazil, on January 3, 2017.
December 20, 2016 Letter

Brazil: Reject Bill Undermining the Rights of People with Disability, Establish Special Multi-stakeholder Legislative Commission

Letter to Senator Lídice da Mata

December 10, 2016 Commentary

A Women’s Right to Be Free of Violence in Brazil

"Rita", a woman victim of domestic violence, holding a protective order issued by a judge in Pernambuco. October 2016.

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