Brazil
Human Rights & Justice |
April
2008 |
For
Brazil, Brazilian, human rights, justice,
law, legislation, legal, citizenship,
citizens, public policy, inequality,
poverty, welfare, social exclusion,
conflict, violence, crime, criminality,
news, analysis, research, reports, publications,
data, studies, surveys, statistics
Edited
by Carlos Eduardo Gaio
Amnesty
International & Global Justice Center
Amnesty International:
Brazil:
‘From Burning Buses to Caveirões’:
The Search for Human Security, 2 May
2007; 2006
Report (summary); "We
have come to take your souls": The
caveirão and policing in Rio de Janeiro,
13 March 2006
Global Justice Center:
On
the Front Line: Human Rights Defenders in
Brazil 2002-2005, December 2005 (English
and Portuguese); Human
Rights Violations in the Amazon: Conflict
and Violence in the State of Pará,
November 2005 (English and Portuguese)
Human Rights Watch:
Annual
Report, Brazil Chapter, January 2007
(Portuguese), World
Report (English); In
the Dark: Hidden Abuses Against Detained
Youths in Rio de Janeiro, June 2005
ILO-International
Labour Organization: Trabalho
Escravo no Brasil do Século XXI,
September 2006
Observatory for the
Protection of Human Rights Defenders:
Annual
Report 2004: Human Rights Defenders on the
Front Line, 8 April 2005;
Chapter on Americas, 31 March 2005
United Nations Commission
on Human Rights:
UN
Special Rapporteur on the independence of
judges and lawyers, Report on Visit
to Brazil, 18 March 2005
UNDP-United Nations
Development Program: Brazil
Human Development Reports (in Portuguese)
US State Department:
2006
Brazil Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Viva Rio:
Report
Brazil: The Arms and the Victims, 11
August 2005
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Brazilian
Academia & Research |
- Biblioteca
Virtual de Direitos Humanos:
Universidade de São
Paulo (USP); updates, documents, treaties,
news, links, bibliography (full text)
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CESEC-Center
for Studies on Public Security and
Citizenship: Universidade Candido
Mendes; publications, news articles;
research, statistics and demographic
data; English,
site
map
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CRISP-Centro
de Estudos de Criminalidade e Segurança
Pública: UFMG-Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais; articles
and reports, research, links; English
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NECVU-Núcleo
de Estudos da Cidadania, Conflito
e Violência Urbana: UFRJ-Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro; news articles,
demographic data, etc.
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NESP-Núcleo
de Estudos em Segurança Pública:
UFMG-Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais; local studies
- NEV-Núcleo
de Estudos da Violência: Universidade
de São aulo (USP); library (full
texts), maps, projects, database, links,
Rede
Observatório de Direitos
Humanos; English
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NUPEVI-Núcleo
de Estudos das Violências: UERJ-Universidade
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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International
Academia & Research |
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Bayefsky:
by Professor A.F. Bayefsky (York University,
Toronto); United Nations' Human Rights
treaties; Brazilian
page
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- Human
Rights Network International:
in French
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HURISEARCH-Human
Rights Information and Documentation
Systems: standards-based information
network, fed by the human rights community;
search;
Spanish and French
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ISHR-International
Service for Human Rights:studies and
reports, practical information and logistical
support
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Project
Diana: Yale University; human
rights research tool with innovative
search engine
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UNICRI-United
Nations Crime & Justice Research
Institute
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Cejil-Center
for Justice and International Law: Spanish,
English and Portuguese
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- Comunidade
Segura: international network
with news; see Brazilian
page
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FIDH-International
Federation for Human Rights: Brazilian
page; English, French and/or Spanish
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Interights-International
Centre for the Legal Protection of Human
Rights: comparative research on human
rights case law
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Oxfam:
in English, Spanish and French
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Witness.org:
witnesses' video account; landless and
death squads in Brazil
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Brazilian
NGOs and Associations |
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- Brazil
Justice net:
also known as SEJUP-Serviço Brasileiro
de Justiça e Paz; news in English
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GAJOP-Gabinete
de Assessoria Jurídica a Organizações
Populares: from Pernambuco; witness
protection program, database and publications;
English
version
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ISER-Instituto
de Estudos da Religião: NGO with
research projects, capacity building
and consultancy on violence, public
security, human rights, environment
and development, religion and society
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MNDH-Movimento
Nacional de Direitos Humanos: advocacy
& watchdog
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- Tortura
Nunca Mais-Pernambuco: reports
and data on cases
- Tortura
Nunca Mais-Rio de Janeiro:
news and articles, cases
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Biblioteca
Jurídica Virtual:Conselho
da Justiça Federal; pages on
law, jurisprudence, institutions, libraries,
dictionaries, articles, periodicals,
etc.; search
facilities
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ESCR-Net:
International Network for Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights; case law
and organizations; English and Spanish
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SEDH-National
Secretariat for Human Rights (Secretaria
Nacional de Direitos Humanos):RNDH-Rede
Nacional de Direitos Humanos
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Research
Institutions
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IPEAdata:
research institute; macroeconomic and
regional database; English version
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Intergovernmental
Organizations |
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ILANUD-Instituto
Latino Americano das Nações
Unidas para Prevenção
do Delito e Tratamento do Delinquente,
in Portuguese. Headquarters
page (Spanish and English)
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OAS-Organization
of American States: news, multimedia,
publications, documents & reports
sections (English, Portuguese,
French and Spanish). IACHR-Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, see documents
and reports in Portuguese,
French, Spanish and English;
IACtHR-Inter-American
Court of Human Rights in Spanish and
English
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