Brazil: Information on police violence and abuse (1994-95)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1996 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | BRA22599.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Brazil: Information on police violence and abuse (1994-95), 1 January 1996, BRA22599.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acca3.html [accessed 28 May 2023] |
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Information on the requested subject for 1994 can be found in Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1994, Human Rights Watch World Report 1995 and Amnesty International Report 1995, all available at your Regional Documentation Centre.
In addition to the above, please find attached excerpts and tables of contents from three Human Rights Watch publications and a news article that contains specific references to the state of Minas Gerais.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
Americas Watch. 1992. The Struggle for Land in Brazil: Rural Violence Continues. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. i-ii, 1-12.
Human Rights Watch/Americas. June 1994. Brazil: Violence Against the Macuxi and Wapixana Indians in Raposa Serra do Sol and Northern Roraima from 1988 to 1994. New York: Human Rights Watch, p. 1.
_____. February 1994. Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. v, 38-47.
Inter Press Service (IPS). 27 September 1995. Mario Osava. "Brazil: Where Torture is Not a Crime." (NEXIS)
