Human Rights Violations In Brazil

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The situation in Brazil in terms of Human Rights is under question, especially last decades UN and Amnesty International detected and started a lot of investigation regarding violation of people’s rights. And as the example of most significant human rights violations that exist today in Brazil are: corruption, poor prison conditions, sex trafficking, including of children, forced labor, which seems as a slavery and children labor force, limitation of freedom os press and expressions, homicide, unlawful killings of police, torture of police workers, discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, women, minorities, killings of black men, no transparency and powerless of human rights defending organizations these all are only a part

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