On January 28, 2004 Erastótenes de Almeida Gonçalves, Nelson José da Silva and João Batista Soares Lages were driving in the State of Minas Gerais to visit the property of a landowner who was suspected of employing slave labour when they were each shot in the head by individuals driving a Fiat … [Read more...]

Dr. Elma Novais and her children Jefferson and Roxana have gone through a campaign of veiled threats and intimidation that appears designed to intimidate Dr. Novais who has been working tirelessly to bring to justice those responsible for killing her son, Josenildo Joao de Freitas Junior. He was … [Read more...]

Conceição Paganele, President and founder of Associação de Mães e Amigos de Crianças e Adolescentes em Risco (AMAR), The Association of Mothers and Friends of Children and Adolescents at risk & is key critic of Sao Paulo’s juvenile detention system, known as FEBEM (Fundação Estadual do Bem-Estar … [Read more...]

Antonio Fernandez Saez, lawyer with dual Spanish and Brazilian citizenship, provides legal assistance to the socially deprived inhabitants of the Jardim Lavinia, Silvinha & Montanhao neighborhoods in Sao Bernardo do Campo. He also provides voluntary legal support to the human rights chapter of … [Read more...]

There have been several reports of threats against the legal advisors and leaders of indigenous organizations involved in an ongoing land dispute in the territory of Monte Verde. On October 18th 1996, the President of the Republic of Bolivia officially recognized the territory of Monte Verde. … [Read more...]

Adalberto Rojas, male, lawyer and President of Bolivian non-governmental organization, the Asamblea Permanente en Santa Cruz de la Sierra (APDH), Permanent Human Rights Assembly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department, has been threatened and intimidated. His life, and those of others … [Read more...]

Human rights lawyer and activist Antoinette Moore was arrested and detained along with her husband Michael L. Flores for alleged drug trafficking. Antoinette Moore works as a lawyer in Dangriga. Many of her cases involve human rights issues and in particular allegations of police brutality. Michael … [Read more...]

LRWC is concerned about threats to the safety of LRWC received information from Amnesty International that Laura Figueroa, a human rights lawyer, Fernanda Sanssone, an archaeology student, and Emilio Ferrer, a federal court prosecutor, all of whom are involved in the investigation of reported human … [Read more...]