Human Rights

No Food, No Water, No Sleep: Is Brazil Torturing Student Protesters?

Brazil’s public relations disaster has gone from bad to worse. In September, congress impeached ...

Gang Fight in Brazil Prison Leaves 25 Dead: 7 Decapitated, 6 Burned

At least 25 Brazilian prisoners were killed – many of them in the most ...

Outrage: 24 Years Later, Carandiru Prison Massacre of 111 is Called Self Defense

On October 2, 1992, the blood of 111 dead prisoners literally flooded the corridors ...

900 Indians Have Been Killed in Brazil Since 2003

According to a report issued by Brazil’s Missionary Indigenous Council in Brasília, almost 900 ...

Brazilian Indians on an European Tour to Denounce Human Rights Abuses

A group of Indigenous leaders from Brazil began, this Monday, a three-week tour of ...

Brazil’s Drug War Is Filling Up Jails Like in the US

Nearly half of all people imprisoned in Brazil’s third most populous state, Rio de ...

Brazil Indians Dying from Extreme Poverty and for Lack of Food, Water

Brazil’s National Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA) submitted recommendations to several federal and state ...

Despite Strict Laws, Child Labor in Brazil Is Not Going Away

Children and adolescents are frequently found working in markets and slaughterhouses in municipalities of ...

A Simple and Practical Proposal to End Brazil’s Child Labor

Virgílio was 12 years old. His childhood was divided between attending school sporadically and ...

A New and Improved Gold Rush

One decade after the first gold rush, the mob is back again in Serra ...