Tag: justice

Brazil’s Supreme Orders Inquiry on Aide to Cabinet Chief

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, to ...

In Brazil, Only 40% of Court Cases Are Judged in One Year or Less

The large number of legal appeals and the lack of organization and communication among ...

ILO Wants World to Learn from Brazil’s Labor Court Decisions

Sentences imposed by Brazilian labor courts in cases of exploitation of slave-like labor, child ...

Public Defender Gets No Respect in Brazil

Brazil’s 1988 Constitution assigned state governments responsibility for establishing public defenders offices in the ...

Half of Brazil’s Public Defenders Not Happy with Job

The Diagnosis of the Public Defenders Office in Brazil shows that 47.1% of Federal ...

Sheding a Litlle Light on Brazil’s Judicial Reform

What follows are some of the chief items covered by the Brazilian Congress proposal ...

How Free is Brazil’s Judiciary? The UN Wants to Know.

The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Independence ...

Brazil’s Lula and France’s Chirac Get Cozy in NY

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took advantage of the United Nations General Assembly ...

Brazil’s Lula: Globalization of Justice Would End Terror

Speaking at the meeting of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, ...