Uso da Lei de Segurança Nacional para silenciar críticos no Brasil Published at 24.05.2021 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: youth office raid attack on HRD intimidation HRD detained HRD killing killing of journalist access to info. law private sector non state actors positive court ruling LGBTI women indigenous groups positive CS development attack on journalist protest internet restriction extractive industries restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Dictatorship-era National Security Law used to intimidate critics in Brazil Published at 11.05.2021 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: youth office raid attack on HRD intimidation HRD detained HRD killing killing of journalist access to info. law private sector non state actors positive court ruling LGBTI women indigenous groups positive CS development attack on journalist protest internet restriction extractive industries restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Closing civic space in Brazil: censorship, harassment and attacks on journalists and activists Published at 18.12.2020 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment HRD detained HRD killing excessive force enforced disappearance censorship non state actors women indigenous groups minority groups positive CS development attack on journalist negative court ruling protest violent protest political interference HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Pandemic in Brazil aggravates democratic backslide Published at 25.08.2020 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship protest disruption intimidation harassment HRD killing excessive force criminal defamation public vilification killing of journalist prevention of protest surveillance non state actors positive court ruling LGBTI women indigenous groups minority groups attack on journalist labour rights protest internet restriction extractive industries political interference restrictive law protestor(s) detained Read more
Journalists under assault in Brazil with judicial harassment, smear campaigns and vilification Published at 28.03.2020 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling protest disruption women intimidation harassment attack on journalist excessive force protest public vilification killing of journalist political interference journalist detained protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Activists criminalised and continuous delegitimisation of press in Brazil Published at 07.01.2020 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women indigenous groups attack on HRD office raid minority groups intimidation attack on journalist HRD detained public vilification political interference restrictive law bureaucratic restriction HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Brazil: defenders vilified and criminalised, censorship and attacks against media on the rise Published at 31.10.2019 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI indigenous groups surveillance attack on journalist HRD killing protest public vilification killing of journalist censorship protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Jair Bolsonaro’s first 100 days in office demonstrate Brazilian president’s disregard for pluralism Published at 13.05.2019 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups restrictive law intimidation positive CS development access to info. law protest Read more
Two land activists murdered in Brazil Published at 18.12.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: women extractive industries environmental rights attack on journalist HRD killing protest land rights Read more
Brazil continues to be a hostile place for journalists, two killed in recent months Published at 19.09.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of journalist women indigenous groups HRD killing HRD threatened non state actors Read more
Human Rights Defender Rivelino Zarpellon continues to face threats Published at 21.06.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups attack on HRD harassment positive CS development attack on journalist HRD threatened protest Read more
Black feminist activist and politician assassinated in Rio de Janeiro Published at 06.04.2018 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: women excessive force censorship HRD killing labour rights protest Read more
