Anti-human rights rhetoric continued to escalate, increasing the risks to human rights defenders. The shrinking of civic space fomented by an official narrative that stigmatized NGOs, journalists, activists, human rights defenders and social movements continued. Obstacles to freedom of expression...

The undersigning organizations wish to express profound concern regarding the consideration of Bill 2903/2023 by the Brazilian Senate, which pose a direct threat not only to the territories that Indigenous peoples currently occupy, but also those which they have traditionally owned, occupied, or...

This submission sets out Amnesty International’s concerns and recommendations regarding the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the government of Brazil. It highlights Brazil’s failure to address extrajudicial executions and other violations committed in...

By any international standards, the COVID-19 pandemic was a particular disaster for Brazil compared to most countries in the world. After Peru, the country amassed the 2nd position in the Americas and the nineteenth globally with the largest number of deaths per million inhabitants.

This submission focusses on Brazil’s failure to address racial and structural discrimination, the situation of economic and social rights of the Afro-Descendant population, and the restrictive environment for Afro-Brazilians to exercise their civil and political rights, as well as through political...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2022. The countries covered are Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland,...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Brazil between 7 and 18 November 2022. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Brazil in its previous UPR, including in relation to preventing and combating torture, promoting racial...

In Brazil’s Amazon, illegal land seizures, deforestation and fires often form part of the process of converting rainforest into pasture. In this report, Amnesty International documents recent land seizures for illegal commercial cattle ranching in protected areas in Brazil’s Amazon and its adverse...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

Before the XXXVth meeting of the High-Level Authorities on Human Rights of Mercosur, the organization wishes to make the following recommendations available to these authorities, in order to guarantee that a human rights approach guides the development of public policies, in particular, those...

Illegal cattle ranching has been the underlying driver of the uptick in violence and illegal land seizures that have marked Brazil’s Amazon this year. The destructive fires that grabbed the world’s attention in July and August were part of a broader process to convert protected rainforest into...

In this statement, delivered on 11 September, Amnesty International called on the UN Human Rights Council to mandate a Commission of Inquiry on Venezuela, called on Brazil to take concrete actions in relation to the devastating fires in the Amazon, welcomed the operationalisation of the Independent...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living has announced that her forthcoming report will focus on the right to adequate housing for Indigenous Peoples. In this submission, Amnesty International present four cases which...