Brazil

Abduction 3
Access to procedures 3
Access to water 1
Africans 5
Age discrimination 2
Airports 2
Amazonian Indians 8
Animist 3
Arará 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
Armed forces / Military 10
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 23
Assemblies of God 5
Asylum-seekers 11
Awá 2
Baptist 5
Buddhist 5
Burden of proof 2
Catholic 8
Child labour 20
Child prostitution 19
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 46
Children-at-risk 18
Christian 7
Citizenship law 2
Civil and political rights 8
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
Complementary forms of protection 1
Conflict resolution 1
Conflict situation 2
Congregationalist 4
Constitutional law 6
Contemporary forms of slavery 8
Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
Corruption 22
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Credibility assessment 3
Crimes against humanity 2
Criminal justice 18
Death in custody 4
Death penalty 1
Death squads 16
Deportation / Forcible return 2
Disabled persons 10
Disappeared persons 24
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 34
Domestic violence 7
Drug trafficking 13
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 30
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 7
Election law 1
Elections 9
Emigrants 1
Equal opportunities 2
Equality before the law 2
Evangelical 6
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exiles 1
Extrajudicial executions 64
Extreme poverty 6
Family reunification 1
Forced labour 39
Forced marriage 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 1
Foreign occupation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 55
Freedom of assembly and association 28
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 216
Freedom of information 123
Freedom of movement 17
Freedom of religion 33
Freedom of speech 85
Gender discrimination 23
Gender mainstreaming 3
Gender-based persecution 1
Generalized violence 1
Genocide 1
Good governance 2
Grounds for persecution 1
Guaraní / Mbyá 2
HIV and AIDS 5
Haitians 1
Harmful traditional practices 1
Hindu 6
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 32
Human Rights Council 6
Human rights activists 43
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 66
Human rights courts 1
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 9
Humanitarian assistance 1
Immigrants 1
Immigration Detention 2
Immigration law 11
Impunity 40
Independence of judiciary 10
Indigenous persons 50
Internal armed conflict 2
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 10
International courts and tribunals 1
International protection 2
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 7
Kayapó 2
Labour law 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 5
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 18
Lutheran 5
Makuxi 1
Maternal and child health care 2
Medical screening 1
Mental health 4
Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
Methodist 4
Migrant rights 1
Migrants 1
Military courts 3
Military law 2
Military operations 4
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 12
Minorities 31
Minority rights 6
Mormon 5
Muslim 7
Nambiquara 1
Nationality law 3
Naturalization 3
Nomads 2
Non-state agents of persecution 4
Palestinian 1
Pentecostal 6
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 9
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 13
Persons not in need of international protection 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Police 64
Political groups 1
Political parties 7
Political situation 8
Pre-trial detention 12
Presbyterian 5
Prevention of discrimination 2
Prison or detention conditions 39
Prosecution vs persecution 2
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 6
Protestant 7
Public health 10
Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
Reconciliation 2
Refugee / Asylum law 8
Refugee identity documents 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
Refugees 18
Rejected asylum-seekers 2
Religious discrimination 20
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
Resettlement 8
Residence permits / Residency 7
Right to a nationality 3
Right to development 2
Right to education 14
Right to employment 11
Right to family life 2
Right to food 1
Right to health 6
Right to justice 3
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 3
Right to return 1
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 4
Rights of non-citizens 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
SGBV 40
Security forces 18
Security situation 18
Seventh Day Adventist 4
Sexual and reproductive rights 5
Shia 5
Shinto 5
Social group discrimination 15
Social group persecution 3
State protection 8
Stateless persons 3
Statelessness 2
Sunni 5
Suspensive effect 1
Terrorism 22
Tikuna 1
Torture 15
Trafficking in persons 49
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Travel documents 1
Tukano 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
Urban refugees 2
Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
Visas 6
Wapixana 1
Well-founded fear of persecution 2
Witnesses 12
Women's rights 34
Women-at-risk 16
Work permits 2
Yanomami 2

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Brazil activist appeals 'politically motivated' prison sentence 16 June 2011 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Hired gunmen threaten rural communities in Brazil 8 June 2011 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
2011 Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights - Brazil 8 June 2011 \| Publisher: International Trade Union Confederation \| Document type: Annual Reports
Assassination of Mr. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Mrs. Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva 27 May 2011 \| Publisher: International Federation for Human Rights \| Document type: Country News
Amnesty International Annual Report 2011 - Brazil 13 May 2011 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom in the World 2011 - Brazil 12 May 2011 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
Brazil Supreme Court legalizes same-sex civil unions 6 May 2011 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Brazilian newspaper owner shot dead 4 May 2011 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Another journalist gunned down in less than a month 4 May 2011 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
ICRC Annual Report 2010 - Brasilia May 2011 \| Publisher: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) \| Document type: Annual Reports

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