As the police were driving the victim to the hospital, her body fell from the back of the police vehicle. The Sao Paulo state government reported that 478 people were killed in clashes with police in the first nine months of the year, up from 240 in the same period in 2013. Much of the prison was occupied by inmates during the riots, with 20 of those killed 24 wings.
Many prisons, including the Federal District, attempted to separate violent from nonviolent offenders and keep convicted drug traffickers in a separate wing from the rest of the prison population. In September at the request of the state government, the federal government deployed troops to stabilize the area. Poor administration of the prison system, corruption and overcrowding were the main criticisms of the penitentiary system in the Northeast.
Security forces generally responded with restraint, but the media reported isolated incidents of police violence or excessive force during some of the demonstrations, particularly in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The authorities generally respected the constitutional right to a prompt judicial determination of the lawfulness of detention.
Respect for Civil Liberties, Including
Human rights groups, other NGOs, and the media reported incidents of excessive police searches in poor neighborhoods. NGOs such as the Inter American Press Association and the National Association of Newspapers reported cases of imprisonment, aggression, censorship and disrespect for press freedom. During the World Cup, Reporters Without Borders, ABERT, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Organization of Sports Journalists called on the government to protect journalists covering the games.
The conviction was condemned by the Bahia State Union of Professional Journalists and the Brazilian Association of. The government did not restrict or disrupt internet access or systematically censor online content, and there were no credible government reports. Following nationwide protests in 2013, the government made an effort to meet protest group organizers to anticipate security needs.
The government cooperated with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and other persons of interest. Access to asylum: The law provides for the granting of asylum or refugee status, and the government has established a system for providing protection to refugees. Temporary Protection: The government provided assistance to Haitian migrants who entered the country in hopes of securing employment and relief from economic conditions in Haiti.
The government continued to issue humanitarian visas to Haitians entering the country in search of employment. The visas give them the right to receive medical and social assistance, the right to work and the right to stay for up to five years. The government has also increased its capacity to issue special work visas through its consulate in Haiti and other regional diplomatic missions to reduce the number of Haitians seeking entry through more dangerous migration routes.
The government issued them a permit to stay and work in the country for one year, and the Ministry of Justice decided on their request.
Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government
Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government
The officers found guilty in the case faced two to six years in prison, including Colonel Alexandre Fontenelle Ribeiro, head of Rio de Janeiro. Financial Disclosure: Government officials are subject to financial disclosure laws and officials generally complied with those provisions. The Federal Internal Revenue Service can also provide a government employee's asset declaration if that person is being investigated for illicit enrichment.
While asset statements are not published, federal employee salary and payment information is published online and searchable by name.
Governmental Attitude Regarding International and
The Office of the Comptroller General serves as the executive branch agency mandated to monitor and verify disclosures. The National Truth Commission, which was established in 2011, continued its investigations into alleged human rights violations committed from 1964 to 1988. The Sao Paulo State Truth Commission, which investigates alleged human rights abuses committed under the military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985, began the investigation of 187 cases of deaths and disappearances since its creation in 2012.
In December, the commission concluded its work and issued a partial report, presenting recommendations for legislative and judicial reform, in addition to greater commemoration of victims of the dictatorship. The authors of the report called for stronger human rights training for police officers and the military. In 2013, Pernambuco State's Truth Commission, in its first year of existence, reported the investigation of 51 cases of deaths and disappearances dating back to the military government.
In two of these cases - including that of Father Antonio Henrique, whose body was found with signs of torture in 1969 - the commission reached a preliminary conclusion that the deaths were political. The Commission compiled a database of more than 70,000 pages of documents, most of which were digitized. The state of Alagoas also created a truth commission to investigate disappearances and deaths under the military regime.
Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons
Nearly half of the women who died in Pernambuco state in 2013 were victims of intimate partner violence. According to the State Secretariat for Social Defense, in 2013 there were 108 cases and 38 cases of intimate partner violence with fatal outcome in the first two months of the year. In March, 116 municipalities in Bahia signed an agreement to work together to combat violence against women in the state.
Female Genital Mutilation/Circumcision (FGM/C): Although there is no law prohibiting female genital mutilation, the practice is virtually non-existent in the country. The labor force participation of women (75 percent) was lower than that of men (85 percent) and women were more likely to work in the informal sector. According to the SDH, the decrease in complaints was not necessarily accompanied by a decrease in the number of abuses.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): There is no law prohibiting FGM/C, and the practice was virtually non-existent in the country. Several large coastal cities in the North East served as tourist destinations for the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The Ministry of Tourism has promoted its code of conduct to prevent the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the tourism industry.
According to the Jewish Federation, there were about 125,000 Jewish citizens, about 65,000 of them in the state of Sao Paulo and 40,000 in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The study estimated that there were about 105,000 neo-Nazis in the three southern states and 29,000 in Sao Paulo state. However, the absence of accessible infrastructure and schools had a significant impact on the workforce, with only an estimated 6 percent of the population with disabilities participating in the workforce.
Afro-Brazilians continued to be underrepresented in government, professional positions, and the middle and upper classes. PAPAI organized a video contest among public high school students to increase participation in the campaign. The NGO Global Witness reported that 448 environmental and land activists were killed in the country between 2002 and 2013.
Worker Rights
The law obliges a union to bargain on behalf of all registered workers in the occupational category and geographic area it represents, regardless of whether an employee pays voluntary membership. Collective bargaining is effectively banned in the public sector; The constitution allows for it, but implementing legislation had not yet been passed by the end of the year. The media reported that from 2010 to 2013, none of the 469 forced labor cases brought to trial resulted in a final trial or conviction, which the Federal Public Ministry attributed to delays in the court system.
Forced labor often involved young people coming from the less developed northeastern states -- Maranhao, Piaui, Tocantins and Ceara -- and the central state of Goia to work in the northern and central-western regions of the country. Additionally, there were reports of forced labor in the construction industry that also involved youths mainly from the Northeast. Cases of forced labor were also reported in the garment industry in the city of Sao Paulo; victims were often from neighboring countries, particularly Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, while others came from Haiti and China.
The government also continued to partner with the ILO in projects to eradicate child labor in the state of Mato Grosso. According to a study conducted by the daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo and based on 2010 census data, the incidence of child labor was more widespread in the north, where one in 10 children worked, either in paid or unpaid work. unpaid. Approximately half of working children received no income and 90 percent worked in the unregistered informal sector.
Children worked in agriculture, including raising livestock and producing cashew nuts, coffee, sugar cane, cotton, cassava, pineapple, sisal, soybeans, rice and tobacco. The law also allows for paid annual leave, prohibits excessive mandatory overtime, limits overtime to two hours per shift. working day and stipulates that working hours above the monthly limit must be compensated with at least one and a half wages; these provisions were generally enforced for all groups of workers in the formal sector. In August, a food company was ordered to pay a fine of one million reais for keeping workers in degrading conditions - including excessive work and unsanitary living conditions - at a company farm in the state of Parana.
Irregularities in the working conditions of Bolivian immigrants working in the garment industry continued, especially in the city of Sao Paulo. According to IBGE, in 2011, the latest year for which data were available, there were approximately 44.2 million people in the informal sector. Unregistered workers were mostly young or older and worked mainly in the agricultural sector.
