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Brazil: Lula Should Focus on Human Rights in New Term

Implement Consistent Rights Agenda October 25, 2026 President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voting in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil (São Paulo, October 25, 2026) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been reelected as Brazil’s president, should use his new term to tackle chronic human rights problems, Human Rights Watch said today. President Lula defeated the Liberal Party candidate, Flávi

Human Rights Watch

Oct 27

Brazil election: Bolsonaro tests Lula's legacy

Brazil's election tests Lula's leftist legacy against Bolsonaro's right-wing movement. October 25, 2026 By Alessandra Freitas Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazilian presidential candidate, left, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, during the presidential debate on Sunday, Oct. 18. (Maira Erlich/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Brazilians return to the polls on Sunday to choose between two candidates campaigning on sharply different versions of the country amid growing concerns ove

CNN

Oct 25

Criminal networks threaten the Amazon

By Steven Grattan October 18, 2026 Credit: AP BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday. More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13. The leaders want governments to tackle th

AP News

Oct 22

Brazilian women are being killed at record rates

Brazilian Women are being killed at record rates. Now it is a key election issue. October 02, 2026 Jo Griffin As the country heads to the polls, candidates are looking to sway female voters with pledges to tackle femicide. For the mother who has spent 20 years recording the names of 30,000 victims, it couldn’t come soon enough. Ever since her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she left a nightclub in 2007, Regina Jardim has been on a mission to ensure no o

The Observer

Oct 13

US and Australia close pre-election Brazil consulates

US halts consular services in Brazil ahead of election, increasing tensions. October 2, 2026 By Lisandra Paraguassu and Doina Chiacu A U.S. flag flies outside the U.S. Embassy, after the United States suspended consular services at its embassy and consulates in Brazil ahead of general election, citing security concerns, in Brasilia, Brazil, October 2, 2026. REUTERS/Adriano Machado Purchase Licensing Rights WASHINGTON/SAO PAULO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Citing security concerns, the

Reuters

Oct 2

Brazil Demarcates Land for Isolated Amazon Indigenous Group

Brazil marks borders for isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon after decades. Shanna Hanbury August 19, 2026 The first sign demarcating the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of FUNAI. Agents of Brazil’s Indigenous agency, FUNAI, spent 60 days in June and July 2026 physically marking the borders of the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. The 411,000-hectare (1 million-acre) area in the Amazon biome of Mato Grosso state is home to the Kawahiva, an i

Mongabay

Aug 19

Country Report: Brazil July 2026

By Renata Lampert Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres. Brazil is home to more than 200 million people, of whom 56% identify as Black or Brown. Structural racism remains a major problem in Brazil. Black people account for 82% of the deaths from police operations. Additionally, 79% of murder victims and 53.6% of victims of feminicide are also Black. Recently, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the João Pinhe

Renata Lampert | Genocide Watch

Aug 4

Brazil court orders Indigenous land recognition

Brazil court orders recognition of Indigenous land and apology for historic atrocities. July 29, 2026 Shanna Hanbury Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna leader Yaiku Suya at an April 2026 public hearing. Image courtesy of Larissa Silva/Rede Juruena Vivo. A federal judge in Brazil has given the country’s government 24 months to recognize the traditional territory of the Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna Indigenous people in the northwestern state of Mato Grosso. The court accepted evidence from federal

Mongabay

Aug 4

The Past is Never Past

Volkswagen's New Convictions for Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon July 16, 2026 Saulo de Matos and Heitor Guimarães Picture: Wolfgang Weihs/picture alliance On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen (VW) was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out

Verfassungsblog

Jul 23

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil

June 24, 2026 Aimee Gabay Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres. In 2025, fires were responsible for a significant spike in forest loss in three territories in Brazil that are home to Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, according to Global Forest Watch data analyzed by Mongabay. Indigeno

Mongabay

Jul 6

Peru, Brazil: Extractivism Threatens Indigenous People In Isolation

In Peru and Brazil, Extractivism threatens Indigenous People in isolation: Report. June 05, 2026 Aimee Gabay The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border. Image courtesy of ORPIO. Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s highest concentrations of PIACI, are under th

Mongabay

Jun 23