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Today, in Brazil, there are daily attacks on democracy, especially on the federal scene. Although they often come from the Executive, it is necessary to recognize the contributions of the Judiciary and the Legislative to…
In an interview with Deutsche Welle Brasil on October 8, Vice President Hamilton Mourão, in addition to praising the government’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic – despite Brazil’s particularly negative data – said that torturer…
In recent weeks, there have been numerous anti-racist demonstrations in the world. These protests, triggered in the United States, were due to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, killed by asphyxiation during…
On February 25 it was reported that president Jair Bolsonaro shared a video in which he summoned the people to acts to be carried out on March 15 of this year, whose agenda, among others,…
On November 20, the Day of Black Awareness (Dia da Consciência Negra) in Brazil is celebrated. To discuss this date, it is necessary to revisit contemporary events to the 1888 Abolition of Slavery, such as…
Mass protests have emerged in different countries of the globe. In Barcelona, Spain, the Catalan independence movement has raised protests against judgments handed down by the Spanish Supreme Court against separatist leaders. In Hong Kong,…
On September 5th, the Brazilian federal government launched the National Program of Civic-Military Schools (Programa Nacional de Escolas Cívico-Militares, PECIM), with the goal of implementing 216 schools in the model by 2023. The model proposes…
In order to protect the Brazilian family against “gender ideology”, President Jair Bolsonaro has been performing an efficient project to attack, censor and dismantle the National Film Agency (Ancine). Under the same pretext, the mayor…
The right to memory and truth, one of the pillars of transitional justice, is directly related to access to and dissemination of information on practices of serious human rights violations. Moreover, it is a key…
In recent weeks, several affirmations by President Bolsonaro about the repression in the military regime have provoked adverse reactions. By denying and trying to disqualify facts proven by Brazilian state agencies, including the Armed Forces…
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