Human Rights

Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...

Human Rights Watch Blames Brazil’s Prison Overcrowding on Country’s Anti-Drug Law

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Brazil’s prison overcrowding problem in its World Report ...

Dozens Killed in Brazil’s Worst Prison Massacre in Two Decades

A prison riot has left at least 56 dead, with decapitated bodies thrown over ...

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 ...