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“Bra]ilian police desperately need community coopera tion to fight the high levels of crime that plague the coun try,´ stated Bra]il’s +uman 5ights :atch director, 0aria Laura &anineu, adding, “But as long as some police offi cers beat and e[ecute people with impunity, communities will not trust the police.´
The report, which analyses human rights practices in over ninety countries around the world, said that the Bra]ilian &ongress made matters worse in the case of police brutal ity by approving, in 2ctober of , a bill that protects armed forces agents accused of unlawful killings of civil ians from being prosecuted in civilian courts. The cases are now to be tried in military courts.
According to the report Bra]il continues to register chronic human rights problems, such as prison overcrowding and the ill treatment of its incar cerated population.
“0any Bra]ilian prisons and Mails are severely overcrowd ed and violent,´ states the report noting that the number of adults behind bars Mumped percent from to , percent more than the cur rent prison system was built to hold. The report also critici]es a bill passed in the &hamber of 'eputies in and being discussed now in the 6enate that would allow and year olds accused of serious crimes to be tried as adults. “,f enacted, the law would violate international norms enshrined in human rights treaties that Bra]il has rati fied, which state that people under should not be pros ecuted as adults,´ argues the international entity.
,n relation to Bra]il’s large indigenous population, +5: notes that in 0arch , the 8nited 1ations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples found a µdisturbing’ lack of progress in areas of key concern to indigenous peoples, such as the demarcation of their ter ritories. 6imilarly to the 81, +5: urged Bra]il’s govern ment µto address violence and discrimination against indig enous people’.
'ata from the &atholic &hurch’s Land &ommis sion &3T , shows that from -anuary to 2ctober , were killed due to land con flicts, the highest number since .
(Riotimes)