Statements: #Brazil

Statement

25 June 2024

Brazil: Attack on Antonio Alves and death threats against Human Rights Defenders from Quilombo Onça in Maranhão

Rights

#Anti-Racism-/Discrimination #Land Rights

Violations

#Physical Attack #Threats / Intimidation

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Ka'apor Indigenous People

25 March 2022

Concern over the escalation of attacks and intimidation against the Ka'apor indigenous people

Rights

#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights #Land Rights

Violations

#Violence #Physical Attack #Threats / Intimidation

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Statement

Rio Police

18 January 2021

Police violence against human rights defenders in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Rights

#Torture / Police Brutality #Housing Rights / Forced Evictions

Violations

#Violence #Physical Attack

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Statement

21 December 2020

WHRD Jane Beatriz da Silva Nunes killed in Brazil

Rights

#Gender/Women's Rights #Minority Rights

Violations

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Raull Santiago

21 February 2020

Front Line Defenders condemns police violence against Raull Santiago and other members of Coletivo Papo Reto

Rights

#Torture / Police Brutality #Economic, Social & Cultural Rights #Housing Rights / Forced Evictions

Violations

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Rio from above. Credit: Renata Oliveira

23 September 2019

High-level defamation against human rights defenders in Rio de Janeiro in reprisal for speaking out on police abuse

Rights

#Torture / Police Brutality #Protests / Assembly

Violations

#Defamation #Killing

Location

#Region: Americas #Brazil

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Statement

MST brazil

18 September 2019

Brazil – Killing of MST member increases concern over state policies that incite violence against human rights defenders

Rights

#Environmental Rights #Land Rights

Violations

#Defamation #Killing #Threats / Intimidation

Location

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Statement

2 July 2019

Bill restricting access to land and threatening environmental protection approved without civil consultation in Pará

Rights

#Environmental Rights #Land Rights

Location

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Statement

Dalcidio Jurandir Camp

10 June 2019

Imminent mass evictions increase risks to human rights defenders in Pará

Rights

Violations

#Judicial Harassment #Physical Attack

Location

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Statement

24 May 2019

Brazil: two years since the Pau d'Arco massacre, still no justice

Rights

Violations

Location

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