BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following accusations that he sexually harassed several women, including another ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned Brazil’s Congress for advancing the General Environmental Licensing Bill and called on lawmakers to support negotiations at COP30 and ratify the Escazú ...

(São Paulo) – Brazil’s Congress should reject a draft bill that would impose an arbitrary cutoff date curtailing the right of Indigenous peoples to their traditional land. Brazil’s lower house is ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Torture remains a serious problem in Brazil despite government efforts to curb it, a leading human rights group said Monday. DeSantis says Obama and Holder gerrymandered 'brutally' in ...

Dear Attorney-General Augusto Aras, We commend efforts at the National Council of Public Prosecutors (CNMP, in Portuguese) to draft a resolution to improve investigations into possible abuses by ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for a permanent monitoring system to track Brazil’s compliance with its recommendation s following the devastating floods that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The top human rights court in the Americas found Brazil guilty of violating victims' rights in a deadly 1998 explosion at a fireworks factory, ...

The State Department’s annual human rights report called out Brazil and South Africa while scaling back criticism of Israel and El Salvador, shifting its account of other nations’ abuses to align with ...

Representative Ilhan Omar has argued for a shift in U.S. foreign policy, pointing to inconsistencies in how the government holds its adversaries and allies to account for human rights abuses. "I ...