Brazil

• Annual Reports 25
• Country News 58
• Country Reports 27

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 1
• Africans 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 3
• Armed forces / Military 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 8
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Children's rights 10
• Children-at-risk 2
• Civil and political rights 1
• Constitutional law 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 4
• Criminal justice 9
• Death in custody 3
• Death squads 9
• Disappeared persons 9
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4
• Drug trafficking 5
• Effective remedy 6
• Equality before the law 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Extrajudicial executions 29
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 21
• Freedom of assembly and association 10
• Freedom of expression 7
• Freedom of information 1
• Freedom of speech 2
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 1
• Generalized violence 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 27
• Human Rights Council 1
• Human rights activists 22
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 9
• Human rights monitors 2
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 29
• Independence of judiciary 3
• Indigenous persons 23
• International courts and tribunals 1
• Juvenile justice system 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
• Mapuche 1
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Medical screening 1
• Migrants 1
• Military courts 2
• Military operations 4
• National security / Public order 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Police 41
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 21
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 6
• Public health 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 1
• Refugees 1
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 5
• Right to life 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• SGBV 6
• Security forces 12
• Security situation 17
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Social group discrimination 2
• Social group persecution 1
• Torture 9
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Witnesses 7
• Women's rights 7

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• Amnesty International - Brazil
• BBC Portuguese - Brasil
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Brazil
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Brazil
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Brasilia
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Brazil
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Brazil
• ReliefWeb - Brazil
• UNHCR - Brazil
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Brazil
• United States Department of State - Brazil
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Brazil