Brazil Justice Net
BRAZIL JUSTICE NET (known also in Portuguese as SEJUP--Servico Brasileiro de Justica e Paz) was founded in 1991 and specializes in preparing news and reports in English about Brazilian human rights and social issues. Among the issues we cover are land questions, indigenous issues, environment, the churches, women's issues, violence, racism, children, grassroots movements.
Primary web addresses
http://www.braziljusticenet.org
Main Address
Caixa Postal 125
18150-970 Ibiuna, Sao Paulo
18150-970 Ibiuna, Sao Paulo
Country
Brazil
Main Telephone
551597833139
Joined OneWorld
07.02.2006
Features
15.12.2006
Militias formed by police, ex-police officers, firemen, prison workers, and military personnel have expelled drug traffickers from the west and northern areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Read moreRelated topics/regions: [Brazil] [Justice and crime] [Conflict] [Security]
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27.09.2006
Here in Brazil, the country is on the eve of the first round of elections at the state and national level. It is the fifth time since the end of the military dictatorship that Brazilians will vote for a president, state governors and representatives. The social movements struggled hard for this right to votehas it made a difference for the Brazilian people?
more...Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Politics] [Democracy]
17.04.2006
Hina Jilani, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders, submitted on March 14 the preliminary report of her visit to Brazil which took place in December, 2005
Read moreRelated topics/regions: [Brazil] [Human rights]
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