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Anti-terror law could restrict rights to association and peaceful assembly
- Published at
- 19.07.2016
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
Wave of anti-government protests met with police repression in Brazil
- Published at
- 10.11.2016
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
Right to peaceful assembly undermined during Olympic Games
- Published at
- 18.09.2016
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
Journalists taking great risks to report on sensitive issues in Brazil
- Published at
- 02.03.2017
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- non state actors
Two indigenous and land rights activists killed in Rio Grande do Sul and Pará
- Published at
- 27.04.2017
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- killing of protestors
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
Anti-Temer protesters in Brazil injured in clashes and detained by police
- Published at
- 12.07.2017
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- violent protest
- excessive force
- intimidation
Brazilians´rights at risk by new bills under review in Congress
- Published at
- 30.08.2017
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- bureaucratic restriction
Committee on human rights reports on an increasingly dangerous environment for HRDs
- Published at
- 15.11.2017
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- excessive force
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
Black feminist activist and politician assassinated in Rio de Janeiro
- Published at
- 06.04.2018
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- women
- excessive force
- censorship
- protest
Brazil: A hostile place for journalists and activists with three killed in January
- Published at
- 07.02.2018
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
Human Rights Defender Rivelino Zarpellon continues to face threats
- Published at
- 21.06.2018
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- positive CS development
- protest
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
Activists criminalised and continuous delegitimisation of press in Brazil
- Published at
- 07.01.2020
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- HRD prosecuted
- minority groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- environmental rights
Journalists under assault in Brazil with judicial harassment, smear campaigns and vilification
- Published at
- 28.03.2020
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- political interference
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- positive court ruling
Pandemic in Brazil aggravates democratic backslide
- Published at
- 25.08.2020
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- positive court ruling
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- harassment
- protest
- HRD killing
- women
- political interference
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- internet restriction
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- extractive industries
- indigenous groups
- public vilification
Closing civic space in Brazil: censorship, harassment and attacks on journalists and activists
- Published at
- 18.12.2020
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- violent protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- political interference
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- women
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- land rights
Uso da Lei de Segurança Nacional para silenciar críticos no Brasil
- Published at
- 24.05.2021
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- indigenous groups
- HRD prosecuted
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- access to info. law
- private sector
- extractive industries
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
Dictatorship-era National Security Law used to intimidate critics in Brazil
- Published at
- 11.05.2021
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- HRD killing
- intimidation
- youth
- killing of journalist
- HRD detained
- access to info. law
- private sector
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- environmental rights
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
Brazil: environmental and land defenders killed, journalists attacked and pandemic data blackout
- Published at
- 18.01.2022
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- non state actors
- women
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
Brazil: defenders vilified and criminalised, censorship and attacks against media on the rise
- Published at
- 31.10.2019
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- LGBTI