Tag: police
Amnesty Condemns Killings of Police in Brazil and Warns Against Retaliation
Amnesty International released a note saying the it totally repudiates the recent wave of ...
Amnesty Uses Brazil Violence to Promote Gun Control in the World
During the course of 2006, Amnesty International plans to present its report entitled "They ...
Brazil Rebuffs Amnesty and Says It’s on the Right Path
The national secretary of Public Safety in the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Fernando Corrêa, ...
Brazil’s Prison Population Almost Doubles in 8 Years. It’s World’s Highest Rate.
The situation of the Rio Interstate Police (Polinter), a police precinct that agglomerates prisoners ...
Brazil’s Inhumanity: Jean Charles Is a Hero, Victims of Brazilian Police Are Nobodies
Jean Charles de Menezes has been buried with all his fellow citizens and politicians’ ...
Brazil Buries Carlos, 11. Another Victim of a Killer Police
At noon, beside a putrid canal in Rio’s Vila do João shantytown, half a ...
Brazilians Say No to Disarmament
The number of Brazilians who favor prohibiting weapons sales in the country plummeted from ...
Brazil: In Morrinho the War Never Ends
It’s midmorning in Morrinho. Three figures peer down from a concrete rooftop at the ...
Have the Brazilian Police Become More Humane?
Brazil has evolved when it comes to incorporating human rights norms into police training ...
