Brazil

• Annual Reports 332
• Chronologies of Events 2
• Commentaries 3
• Compilations 2
• Concluding Observations 9
• Country Briefing Folders 1
• Country News 358
• Country Operations Plans 2
• Country Profiles 3
• Country Reports 118
• Fact Finding Reports 1
• Handbooks/Manuals 2
• Mission Reports 17
• Query Responses 142
• Regional Reports 12
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Sessional Reports 3
• Speeches/Statements 2
• States Parties Reports 18
• Thematic Guidelines 1
• Thematic Reports 5
• UNHCR Country Updates 1

• Abduction 6
• Access to procedures 5
• Access to water 5
• Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
• Africans 12
• Airports 2
• Amazonian Indians 9
• Animist 5
• Anti-terrorism law 4
• Arará 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 30
• Armed forces / Military 17
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 24
• Assemblies of God 5
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 18
• Awá 3
• Baptist 5
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 2
• Buddhist 9
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
• Catholic 12
• Ceasefire 1
• Child labour 32
• Child prostitution 26
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 67
• Children-at-risk 29
• Christian 11
• Citizenship / Nationality law 4
• Civil and political rights 11
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 8
• Community development 1
• Conflict resolution 3
• Conflict situation 3
• Congregationalist 4
• Constitutional law 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 10
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 3
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
• Corruption 42
• Credibility assessment 1
• Crime prevention 2
• Crimes against humanity 2
• Criminal justice 22
• Death in custody 4
• Death penalty 2
• Death squads 17
• Democracy 4
• Disappeared persons 29
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 45
• Domestic violence 13
• Drug trafficking 18
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 30
• Effective protection 3
• Effective remedy 12
• Election law 1
• Elections 16
• Emigrants 1
• Equal opportunities 2
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 6
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 2
• Exiles 1
• Extrajudicial executions 104
• Extreme poverty 7
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Forced labour 48
• Forced marriage 3
• Forced relocation 1
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 4
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 64
• Freedom of assembly and association 62
• Freedom of conscience 3
• Freedom of expression 349
• Freedom of information 217
• Freedom of movement 18
• Freedom of religion 43
• Freedom of speech 135
• Gang related violence 7
• Gender discrimination 28
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Generalized violence 4
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 6
• Guaraní / Mbyá 3
• HIV and AIDS 8
• Haitians 4
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Hindu 10
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 57
• Human Rights Council 21
• Human rights activists 53
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 74
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 12
• Humanitarian assistance 3
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 77
• Independence of judiciary 17
• Indigenous persons 73
• Integration 3
• Internal armed conflict 3
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 16
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 5
• Jew 11
• Juvenile justice system 5
• Kayapó 2
• Labour law 2
• Legal representation / Legal aid 5
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 31
• Livelihoods 1
• Lutheran 5
• Makuxi 1
• Mapuche 2
• Maternal and child health care 6
• Medical screening 1
• Mental health 3
• Methodist 4
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 8
• Military courts 3
• Military law 2
• Military operations 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 10
• Minorities 42
• Minority rights 12
• Mormon 9
• Muslim 11
• Nambiquara 1
• National security / Public order 8
• Naturalization 3
• Nomads 3
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Palestinian 2
• Peace process 1
• Pentecostal 10
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 10
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 12
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 17
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
• Persons with disabilities 15
• Police 114
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 10
• Political situation 16
• Pre-trial detention 16
• Presbyterian 5
• Prevention of discrimination 3
• Prison or detention conditions 65
• Property restitution 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 11
• Protestant 11
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 27
• Public health 14
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reconciliation 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugees 34
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 24
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Resettlement 12
• Residence permits / Residency 11
• Returnees 2
• Right to a nationality 2
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 17
• Right to employment 11
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 8
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to life 5
• Right to registration at birth 3
• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rights of non-citizens 3
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
• Sanctions 1
• Security forces 27
• Security situation 30
• Serious non-political crime 4
• Seventh Day Adventist 4
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 44
• Sexual and reproductive rights 13
• Shia 5
• Shinto 5
• Social group discrimination 15
• Social group persecution 1
• State protection 11
• Statelessness 12
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 3
• Sunni 5
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 6
• Temporary protection 3
• Terrorism 32
• Threats / Intimidation 15
• Tikuna 1
• Torture 30
• Trafficking in persons 62
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Travel documents 3
• Tukano 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 17
• Urban refugees 1
• Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
• Visas 9
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Wapixana 1
• War crimes 1
• Witnesses 12
• Women's rights 49
• Women-at-risk 16
• Work permits 2
• Yanomami 2

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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