Brazil Human Rights & Justice

For Brazil, Brazilian, human rights, justice, law, legislation, legal, citizenship, citizens, public policy, inequality, poverty, welfare, social exclusion, conflict, violence, crime, criminality, news, analysis, research, reports, publications, data, studies, surveys, statistics

Edited by Carlos Eduardo Gaio
Amnesty International

Amnesty International: Brazil: ‘From Burning Buses to Caveirões’:
The Search for Human Security, 2 May 2007; The Indigenous Peoples of Brazil: Lands and Life under Threat, 1 August 2006; "We Have Come to Take Your Souls": The Caveirão and Policing in Rio de Janeiro, 13 March 2006

Global Justice Center: Link to Reports; On the Front Line: Human Rights Defenders in Brazil 2002-2005, December 2005 (English and Portuguese); Human Rights Violations in the Amazon: Conflict and Violence in the State of Pará, November 2005 (English and Portuguese)

Human Rights Watch: Annual Report, Brazil Chapter, January 2007 (Portuguese), World Report (English); In the Dark: Hidden Abuses Against Detained Youths in Rio de Janeiro, June 2005

ILO-International Labour Organization: Possibilidades Jurídicas de Combate à Escravidão Contemporânea, 2007

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Annual Report 2004: Human Rights Defenders on the Front Line, 8 April 2005; Chapter on Americas, 31 March 2005

UNDP-United Nations Development Program: Brazil Human Development Reports (in Portuguese)

US State Department: 2007, 2006 Brazil Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Viva Rio: Report Brazil: The Arms and the Victims, 11 August 2005

• American University Centre for Human Rights: Inter-American Human Rights Database (English and Spanish), jurisprudence with good articles, search
• Bayefsky: by Professor A.F. Bayefsky (York University, Toronto); United Nations' Human Rights treaties; page on Brazil
• Harvard Law School Human Rights Program: International Human Rights Law, including Harvard Human Rights Journal; site map, search
• HR Internet: one of the most comprehensive sources available; site map
• Human Rights Library: University of Minnesota; search, multilingual site
• Human Rights Network International: English and French
• HURISEARCH-Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems: standards-based information network, fed by the human rights community; search; English, Spanish and French
• ISHR-International Service for Human Rights:studies and reports, practical information and logistical support
• Project Diana: Yale University; human rights research tool with innovative search engine
• Sur-International Journal on Human Rights: academic network; biannual journal in English, Portuguese and Spanish
• UNICRI-United Nations Crime and Justice Research Institute

• Amnesty International: multilingual site, site map
• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: page on Brazil; English, Spanish and French; site map
• Care International: see Care Brazil in Portuguese
• Cejil-Center for Justice and International Law: Spanish, English and Portuguese
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court: Brazilian page; Spanish, English and French
• COHRE-Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions: search Brazil; site map
• Comunidade Segura: international network with news; page on Brazil
• FIDH-International Federation for Human Rights: English, French and/or Spanish
• Human Rights Watch: multilingual site; reports and site in Portuguese
• Interights-International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights: comparative research on human rights case law
• International Commission of Jurists: see Brazilian section
• Oxfam: in English, Spanish and French
• PIDHDD-Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo
• Red Cross International Committee: multilingual site; Latin America
• Witness.org: witnesses' video account; landless and death squads in Brazil

• Associação Juízes para a Democracia: non-profit organisation for judiciary system reform
• Brazil Justice net: also known as SEJUP-Serviço Brasileiro de Justiça e Paz; news in English
• Comissão Brasileira Justiça e Paz: linked to CNBB-Confederacao Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil; news, studies and projects
• DHnet-Direitos Humanos na Internet: site map
• Fundação Instituto de Direitos Humanos: from Salvador; documents, law and articles
• GAJOP-Gabinete de Assessoria Jurídica a Organizações Populares: from Pernambuco; witness protection program, database and publications
• Global Justice Centre: reports and documents; English, Portuguese and German
• ISER-Instituto de Estudos da Religião: research NGO
• MNDH-Movimento Nacional de Direitos Humanos: advocacy & watchdog; contains news and publications; search
• OAB-Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (Bar Association)
• Sou da Paz: from São Paulo; disarmement issues
• Tortura Nunca Mais-Pernambuco: reports and data on cases
• Tortura Nunca Mais-Rio de Janeiro: news and articles, cases
• Viva Rio: campaign; disarmament, urban violence, street children

• Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual-Prossiga: Conselho da Justiça Federal; pages on law, jurisprudence, institutions, libraries, dictionaries, articles, periodicals, etc.; search facilities
• Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos: USP-Universidade de São Paulo; updates, documents, treaties, bibliography
• ESCR-Net: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; case law and organisations; page on Brazil; English and Spanish

• Chamber of Deputies: see Human Rights Commission (Comissão de Direitos Humanos da Câmara dos Deputados)
• Health Ministry: see Datasus for statistics
• Justice Ministry: site map
• SEDH-National Secretariat for Human Rights (Secretaria Nacional de Direitos Humanos): subordinated to the Presidency
• Federal Council of Justice (Conselho da Justiça Federal); site map
• High Court of Justice (STJ-Superior Tribunal de Justiça); site map
• Senate: see Interlegis (law database; site map); search SICON-Sistema de Informação do Congresso Nacional
• Supreme Court (STF-Supremo Tribunal Federal); site map

• IBGE: statistics research institute; English and Spanish versions, site map
• IPEAdata: research institute; macroeconomic and regional database; English version
• SEADE-Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados de São Paulo: bibliographical database (Sistema de Documentação sobre População no Brasil-DOCPOP)

• ILANUD-Instituto Latinoamericano de las Naciones Unidas para la Prevencion del Delito y Tratamiento del Delincuente: Spanish and Portuguese; office in Brazil (in Portuguese)
• Instituto Latino Americano das Nações Unidas para Prevenção do Delito e Tratamento do Delinquente, in Portuguese. Headquarters page (Spanish and English)
• ILO-International Labour Organization: site map, search, English, French and Spanish; office in Brazil in Portuguese
• OAS-Organization of American States: news, multimedia, publications, documents & reports sections (English, Portuguese, French and Spanish). IACHR-Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, see documents and reports in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English; IACtHR-Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Spanish and English
• UNESCO: multilingual site; office in Brazil in Portuguese
• United Nations: multilingual site. Human Rights website, CHR-Commission on Human Rights, OHCHR-Office of the High Commissioner, Sub-Commission; see also treaties & monitoring bodies, General Assemblies, Security Council, Special Procedures and Integrated Regional Information Networks

• Dataveni@: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB); articles, essays, interviews, new books and directory of links
• Infolegis:"will help foreign law librarians to research Brazilian legislation"; includes guide Doing Legal Research in Brazil; English