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Brazil : 2015 Human Rights Report

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The most significant human rights abuses included poor and at times life-threatening conditions in some prisons; corruption; sex trafficking, including of children; and exploitative working conditions, including forced labor.Other human rights problems included excessive force and unlawful killings by state police; beatings, abuse, and torture of detainees and inmates by police and prison security forces; prolonged pretrial detention and inordinate delays of trials; judicial censorship of media; violence and discrimination against women and girls; violence against children, including sexual abuse; social conflict between indigenous communities and private landowners that occasionally led to violence; discrimination against indigenous persons and minorities; violence and social discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons; violence against environmentalists; insufficient enforcement of labor laws; and child labor in the informal sector.The government continued to prosecute officials who committed abuses; however, an inefficient judicial process delayed justice for perpetrators as well as survivors.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781535451550
  • ISBN-10: 1535451556
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: July 2016
  • Dimensions: 11.02 x 8.5 x 0.06 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
  • Page Count: 28

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