A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights
Table of contents
Preface ......................................................................................................................................... 005
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 011
I. Human Rights in the Countryside
The (Old) New Agrarian Issue, and Agribusiness .......................................................... 019
José Juliano de Carvalho Filho
Agricultural Industries take over new territory and feed violence .............................. 027
Antônio Canuto
Agro-energy: Myths and Impacts ........................................................................................ 037
Maria Luisa Mendonça e Marluce Melo
Work in the sugarcane mills of São Paulo ........................................................................ 047
Evanize Sydow
Slave Labor and Promiscuity among Brazilian Authorities .......................................... 051
Ricardo Rezende Figueira
Quilombolas: Struggles and Resistance in 2007 .............................................................. 057
Roberto Rainha
Brazilian Quilombolas and reminiscences of the past ................................................... 063
Aton Fon Filho
HUMAN RIGHTS IN BRAZIL 2007
The Guarani-Kaiowá Holocaust and Anti-indigenous Violence in Brazil ................ 071
Paulo Maldos
GMOs and the Rights of Growers .................................................................................... 081
Gabriel B. Fernandes
Putting Out Suns ....................................................................................................................... 085
Leandro Gaspar Scalabrin
The Right to Stewardship ...................................................................................................... 091
Jelson Oliveira
The complex situation of the human right to water ...................................................... 097
Roberto Malvezzi
The Shamelessness of Silviculture: Environmental
Destruction and Human Rights Violations .................................................................................................................................... 103
Jelson Oliveira
II. Human Rights in Urban Areas
Preliminary Conclusions of the Special UN Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Summary, or
Extra-judicial Executions in Brazil ....................................................................................... 113
Public Security in the State of Rio de Janeiro .................................................................. 121
Alessandro Molon
Walls of Shame ......................................................................................................................... 125
Luiz Bassegio e Luciane Udovic
Trafficking in Persons: advances in institutionalization and in critical thinking ........ 129
Marcia Sprandel
A brief sketch of urban policies on the promotion of the human right to
housing ........................................................................................................................................ 139
Nelson Saule Júnior e Patrícia de Menezes Cardoso
Insecurity, Contradictions, and Risks of Nuclear Activity ............................................ 149
Zoraide Vilasboas
For Justice that Keeps Truth in Memory ........................................................................... 153
Suzana Angélica Paim Figuerêdo
The Right to Memory and the Truth .................................................................................. 159
Suzana Keniger Lisboa
III. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Human Rights for Women and Violence Against
Women: Advances and Limits of the Maria da Penha Law ............................................................................................................... 167
Cecília MacDowell Santos
White rights. Black rights. Human rights ............................................................................ 177
Douglas Elias Belchior
Debate about Development in the Amazonian Context.............................................. 183
Lindomar Silva
The Right to Food ................................................................................................................... 193
Maria Luisa Mendonça
The Debate about the Education Development Plan ................................................... 199
Mariângela Graciano e Sérgio Haddad
IV. International Policy and Human Rights
Internal and External Public Debt as I
mpediments to the Achievement of HumanRights............................................................................................................................ 207
Maria Lucia Fattorelli Carneiro
UN Troops Accused of Human Rights Violations in Haiti ........................................ 217
Maria Luisa Mendonça