Tag: justice

UN Gives Brazil High Marks for Poverty Fight But a D for Justice

The top UN human rights official, during a three-day visit to Brazil that ended ...

Brazilian Justice Threatens to Shut Down Orkut and Google Brazil This Month

Orkut, Google's social networking site, which draws more than half of its members from ...

Brazilian Justice Gives Google 15 Days to Sing or Pack Up

After months of evasive answers to the Brazilian authorities, the time of delaying tactics ...

Rio, Brazil, street kid searches for lost coins under the drain

When I See What’s Going on in Brazil I Feel Like Picking Up a Gun

They come every trash day. A black man in his twenties and his son, ...

Brazil Opens First Maximum Security Prison at Cost of US$ 10 Million

Brazil’s Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, and the director of the Department of ...

First Woman Justice in Brazil Has Confederate Ancestors

Justices on the Brazilian Supreme Court get to the court in much the same ...

Brazilian Judges Accused of Promoting Violence and Impunity

The Brazilian Farm Worker Union (Contag) and an international union (Uita) are launching a ...

Justice Can’t Be Blamed for Impunity in Brazil Says Judges Association

The performance of the Brazilian Judicial system in the agrarian conflicts does not stimulate ...

Brazilian Supreme Votes for End to Nepotism in the Courts

As a result of a great effort, nepotism in the Brazilian government has been ...

Brazil Rebuffs Amnesty and Says It’s on the Right Path

The national secretary of Public Safety in the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Fernando Corrêa, ...