A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights
Preface.............................................................................................................................. 011
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 013
Human Rights in Brazil - 10 years: Partner Organizations .................................... 017
I – Human Rights in the Countryside
Agrarian Reform Policy in Brazil ................................................................................ 025
Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira
Concentration, Agrarian Policy and Violence in the Countryside: Ten Years ..... 037
José Juliano de Carvalho Filho
Violation of Rights and Violence Persist in the Countryside ................................ 041
Antônio Canuto
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Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform ................................ 047
Maria Luisa Mendonça
The Development Model in the Amazon and Its Impacts on Human Rights .... 055
Luis Fernando Novoa Garzon
The Electric Energy Model in Brazil .......................................................................... 059
MAB – Movement of Dam Affected People
Contemporary Slavery in Brazil: 1985 to 2009 ......................................................... 065
Ricardo Resende Figueira
Indigenous Peoples: The Long March for Recognition of Stolen Humanity ..... 075
Rosane F. Lacerda
From Quilombo to Movement: Organizing the Fight for the Right to
Land in Brazil ...............................................................................................................085
Josilene Brandão da Costa
The Battle for Water as a Right ................................................................................... 091
Roberto Malvezzi
II – Human Rights in Urban Areas
Access to Justice and Amnesty .................................................................................... 105
Kenarik Boujikian Felippe
Public Security, Violence and Criminality in Rio de Janeiro ................................... 111
Jailson de Souza e Silva
The Punitive System: 10 years lost .............................................................................. 117
José de Jesus Filho
How the Lula Government Claims to Solve the Housing Problem ..................... 123
Pedro Fiori Arantes e Mariana Fix
Rights of Children and Adolescents: Extermination, racism, and the old silence ...... 131
Maria Helena Zamora e Claudia Canarim
III – Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
The Right to Work in Brazil ......................................................................................... 141
Clemente Ganz Lúcio e Patrícia Lino Costa
Social Inequality in Brazil ............................................................................................. 153
Guilherme C. Delgado
Health Care as a Human Right .................................................................................... 159
Felipe Rangel de Souza Machado
Reproductive Rights: Human Rights in Dispute ...................................................... 169
Beatriz Galli
Formal Education as a Human Right: Access, Quality, and Social Control ........ 177
Mariângela Graciano e Sérgio Haddad
Race Relations in Brazil ................................................................................................ 183
Sandro Silva
The Human Right to Communication in Brazil: The Balance Over a Decade (1999-2009) .........189
Rogério Tomaz Jr
IV – International Policy and Human Rights
Weather and Climate ...................................................................................................... 203
Sérgio Dialetachi
Social Organizations Against the Use of REDD as a Carbon Market-Based Mechanism............... 211
Letter from Belém
Poverty According to the World Bank ....................................................................... 215
Francisco Adjacy Farias e Mônica Dias Martins
In Defense of the Rights of Migrants ....................................................................... 221
