Presented in February by Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes, a draft bill violates Indigenous people's constitutional rights ...

A recent study has uncovered hidden truths about Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985), revealing a vast international ...

The Oscar-winning film has reignited national discussions on the dictatorship. With the debate over amnesty resurfacing, ...

We also document the human rights violations that accompanied the largest assault to date on Rio’s drug gangs, Operation Rio, from November 1994 to mid-1995. In recent years, Brazil has emerged ...

The sentence stems from the building of the Rocket Launch Center (CLA), which began in the 1980s, and was imposed due to the ...

An independent United Nations human rights expert this week voiced concern about alleged displacement and evictions in various cities across Brazil as the country prepares to host the 2014 soccer ...

I'm Still Here chronicles harrowing real-life events in the 1970s, focusing on civil engineer and former politician Rubens Paiva, his wife Eunice, and their five children during Brazil's military ...

The Government of Brazil abstained as Russia was being suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council Thursday evening, with only 23 countries voting against the measure, adopted as a ...

an advisory board of Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights that analyzes amnesty and reparation requests to victims of political persecution in the country. The board approved the apology plea in a ...

A local environment protection agency confirmed to PEOPLE that a relative who was found to be responsible was fined 10,000 Brazilian reals Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s ...