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April 20, 2022 News

Joint letter from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, WWF and Transparency International on Brazil's accession to the OECD

Dear Mr. Cormann, We, the undersigned organizations, who bring together extensive experience in monitoring policies on transparency, good governance, human rights, and the promotion of sustainable development in Brazil, are writing to express our…

April 19, 2022 News

Letter to OECD Secretary General, Ambassadors, and Environmental Policy Committee Delegates

Dear Secretary General, Ambassadors, and Environmental Policy Committee Delegates: As the OECD’s Environment Policy Committee prepares to review the proposed roadmap for Brazil’s potential accession to the OECD Convention, we urge you to examine…

April 18, 2022 News

Open Letter to Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs

Civil society urges ministry to invite new UN mechanism on racial justice to visit Brazil

Dear Minister Carlos Alberto Franco França, We, the undersigned Brazilian and international civil society organizations and institutions, are writing to strongly urge you to extend an invitation to the International Independent Expert Mechanism…

November 25, 2021 News

Letter to OECD Ambassadors on the Environmental and Human Rights Crisis in the Brazilian Amazon

Dear Ambassadors, Following press reports that the OECD is considering granting Brazil’s request to open accession discussions, and the announcement that deforestation has dramatically risen for the third consecutive year in the Amazon, we urge you to…

September 22, 2021 News

Requests for the Quad Vaccine Partnership and the Quad Leaders’ Summit on September 24

September 21, 2021 His Excellency Mr. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia His Excellency Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India His Excellency Mr. Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan His Excellency Mr. Joe Biden…

September 10, 2021 News

Letter to Prime Minister Suga on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

Dear Prime Minister Suga, We write to you to urge your government to take urgent steps to address the human rights crisis in Afghanistan and help protect Afghan civilians at particular risk. International protection for Afghans The US…

July 8, 2021 News

Letter to Consortium of the Governors of the Legal Amazon

Dear Governors, We are writing to applaud the commitment the Governors, through the Interstate Legal Amazon Consortium, have made to fight illegal deforestation in the Amazon and to…

June 8, 2021 News

Human Rights Watch Letter to the Heads of States and Governments ahead of the G7 Summit

Last week, in a public letter, Human Rights Watch called on the leaders of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan to take concrete and decisive action facing the unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-19…

Flags of the G7 Europe, Canada, Italy, Japan, Germany, England, USA and France in Paris, France on July 4th, 2019.

May 20, 2021 News

Recommendations for Improving Forensic Analysis and Investigations into Police Killings in Rio de Janeiro

The following document is a response by Human Rights Watch to a question posed by Supreme Court justice Edson Fachin during a hearing to discuss strategies to reduce police killings in Rio de Janeiro on April 19, 2021. QUESTION POSED TO HUMAN RIGHTS…

April 16, 2021 News

Letter to Rio de Janeiro’s attorney general, Luciano Mattos

Esteemed Attorney General, We write to express our serious concern about the elimination of the Group of Specialized Action in Public Security (GAESP, in Portuguese) and to urge you to establish a well-resourced unit of prosecutors dedicated to…

April 6, 2021 News

Brazil: Open Letter by Human Rights Watch to the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI)

Dear President of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) Marcelo Augusto Xavier, I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to respectfully urge you to revoke Resolution n° 4/2021, adopted by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) on January 26…

Krimej indigenous Chief Kadjyre Kayapo, looks out at a path created by loggers, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.

February 16, 2021 News

Joint Submission Concerning Japanese Business Entities Operating in Myanmar

February 17, 2021 Mr. Dante Pesce Chair Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland RE:…

Demonstrators gather in an intersection close to Sule Pagoda to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.

February 6, 2021 News

Letter on the Amazon and its Defenders to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

São Paulo, January 27, 2021 Permanent Representatives of Member States Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Dear Ambassadors, As the OECD Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) prepares to review Brazil’s status with the…

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil.

January 26, 2021 News

Letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Regarding National LGBT Non-Discrimination Act

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan 1-6-1 Nagata-chō, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8968, Japan Re: National Law Needed by 2020 Tokyo Olympics to Protect against Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or…

January 25, 2021 News

Japan: Withdraw from Coal Power Plant Project in Vietnam

Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso, Minister of Finance Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Tadashi Maeda, Governor, Japan Bank for International Cooperation Atsuro Kuroda, Chairman and CEO, Nippon Export and…

Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River in Danville, Virginia

December 10, 2020 News

Amicus Curiae Regarding School Segregation for Children with Disabilities

HONORABLE DR. TOFFOLI, MINISTER OF THE SUPREME FEDERAL COURT, RAPPORTEUR OF DIRECT ACTION OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY Nº 6590 - OF DECREE 10.502 ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL POLICY ON SPECIAL EDUCATION ADIN Nº 6590 …

October 22, 2020 News

Human Rights Watch submission to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs public consultation on due diligence on forest risk commodities

Human Rights Watch welcomes the initiative of the UK government to launch a public consultation on due diligence on forest and ecosystem-risk commodities, as well as the announcement by minister of state Zac Goldsmith that the UK intends to spearhead…

October 20, 2020 News

Human Rights Watch Letter to Japanese Authorities Re: Trans University Students

Governor Hiroshi Ogawa, Fukuoka Prefecture Tisato Kajiyama, Chairman, Board of Trustees, and President, Fukuoka Women’s University Governor Ichita Yamamoto President Yoshie Kobayashi, Gunma Prefectural Women’s…

July 6, 2020 News

Letter to the European Union on the EU-Mercosur Deal

Dear Foreign Ministers and Members of the European Parliament: We are writing to share our concerns regarding the environmental and human rights crisis unfolding in the Brazilian Amazon, and to urge that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement not be…

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