AcknowledgementsThis report was written by Michael Bochenek and Fernando Delgado, based on nine months of research, from September 2004 to June 2005, by Fernando Delgado in Rio de Janeiro. Michael Bochenek is counsel to the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Fernando Delgado is a 2004 A.B. graduate of Princeton University and the Henry Richardson Labouisse ‘26 Fellow for Human Rights Watch in Rio de Janeiro for 2004-2005. Lois Whitman, executive director of the Children’s Rights Division; Joanne Mariner, deputy director of the Americas Division; Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director of Human Rights Watch; and Iain Levine, program director of Human Rights Watch, edited the report. John Emerson designed the maps. Fitzroy Hepkins, Andrea Holley, Veronica Matushaj, and Ranee Adipat provided production assistance. Reginaldo Alcantara translated the report from English into Portuguese. Human Rights Watch is indebted to the many nongovernmental organizations and individuals who generously assisted us in the course of our field research, among them Sandra Carvalho and the staff of Justiça Global; Luke Dowdney and the staff of the Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence Program at Viva Rio; Rubem César Fernandes, executive director, Viva Rio; Mônica Suzana and Rute Sales, coordinators, Moleque – Movimento de Mães pela Garantia dos Direitos dos Adolescentes no Sistema Sócio-Educativo; Márcia Castro, lawyer, Centro de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos Fundação Bento Rubião; André Hespanhol and the staff of Projeto Legal; Maria Helena Zamora, professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; the staff of the State Council for the Defense of the Child and Adolescent; Liliana Tojo and the staff of the Center for Justice and International Law in Rio de Janeiro; Pedro Pereira; Helena Romanach; and Karyna Sposato, executive director, U.N. Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Delinquents (ILANUD). We would also like to thank the government officials who agreed to be interviewed for this report, including Dr. Evandro Steele, undersecretary of state for childhood and youth; Dr. Guaraci de Campos Vianna, chief judge, Segunda Vara da Infância e Juventude of Rio de Janeiro; Dr. Simone Moreira da Souza, Eufrásia Souza, and the staff of the office of the public defender of Rio de Janeiro, and Drs. Analia Silva, Carla Leite, Eliane Pereira, and Renato Lisboa of the state prosecutor’s office of Rio de Janeiro. Finally, we would like to thank the many children and parents we interviewed, whose names have been changed in this report to protect their privacy. Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Babson Foundation, Bloomberg, the Countess Moira Foundation, the Malcolm Hewitt Foundation, the Independence Foundation, the Isenberg Family Trust, the Link Foundation, the Oak Foundation, and the community of people who support Human Rights Watch’s work to defend children. Previous Human Rights Watch reports on Brazil “Real Dungeons”: Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro, 2004 Cruel Confinement: Abuses Against Detained Children in Northern Brazil, 2003 Behind Bars in Brazil, 1998 Urban Police Brutality in Brazil, 1997 Fighting Violence with Violence: Human Rights Abuse and Criminality in Rio de Janeiro, 1996 Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil, 1994 Violence Against the Macuxi and Wapixana Indians in Raposa Serra do Sol and Northern Roraima from 1988 to 1994, 1994 Forced Labor in Brazil Re-Visited: On-Site Investigations Document That Practice Continues, 1993 The Killings in Candelária and Vigário Geral: The Urgent Need to Police the Brazilian Police, 1993 Urban Police Violence in Brazil: Torture and Police Killings in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro After Five Years, 1993 The Struggle for Land in Brazil: Rural Violence Continues, 1992 Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil, 1991 Rural Violence in Brazil, 1991 “Forced Labor in Brazil,” News from Americas Watch, 1990 Police Abuse in Brazil: Summary Executions and Torture in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1987
Previous Human Rights Watch reports on juvenile justice “Real Dungeons”: Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro, 2004 Cruel Confinement: Abuses Against Detained Children in Northern Brazil, 2003 Charged with Being Children: Egyptian Police Abuse of Children in Need of Protection, 2003 No Minor Matter: Children in Maryland’s Jails, 1999 “Nobody’s Children”: Jamaican Children in Police Detention and Government Institutions, 1999 Prison Bound: The Denial of Juvenile Justice in Pakistan, 1999 Juvenile Injustice: Police Abuse and Detention of Street Children in Kenya, 1997 Guatemala’s Forgotten Children: Police Violence and Arbitrary Detention, 1997 High Country Lockup: Children in Confinement in Colorado, 1997 Children of Bulgaria: Police Violence and Arbitrary Confinement, 1996 Modern Capital of Human Rights? Abuses in the State of Georgia, 1996 Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India, 1996 Children in Confinement in Louisiana, 1995 Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil, 1994 Jamaica: Children Improperly Detained in Police Lockups, 1994 Children in Northern Ireland: Abused by Security Forces and Paramilitaries, 1992 Nothing Unusual: The Torture of Children in Turkey, 1992
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