The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) called for Brazil do adopt measures to protect Mônica Teresa Azeredo Benício, widow of Marielle Franco, the Rio de Janeiro city councilor killed on March 14.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Regional Office for South America of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a note urging the Brazilian state to devise policies aimed at protecting the indigenous living in isolation
The Brazilian government will be given a year—a deadline ending on May 11, 2018—to reopen investigations into the two massacres that took place during police operations in 1994 and 1995 in Nova Brasília, a community within the favela complex of Alemão, Rio de Janeiro.
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