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31 Mar 2020
Public Note #15 – Statement on COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples: the State’s responsibility
The Arns Comission express its solidarity with Indigenous peoples, as well as the professionals, leaders, and institutions that work to protect them. And we encourage the institutions of the Justice System to take the necessary measures to defend Indigenous peoples.
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30 Mar 2020
In defense of Human Rights
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25 Mar 2020
Public Note #14 – For the health of poor people
The Arns Commission calls on the whole society to continue and strengthen solidarity actions, as well as calls on public authorities to fulfill their obligations, in order to meet social needs that have been accumulated due to their negligence.
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3 Mar 2020
At the UN, the Arns Commission denounces risks of ethnocide and genocide
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20 Feb 2020
Public Note #13 – In repudiation of the attacks against the journalist Patrícia Campos Mello
We hope that Brazilian society will react against this authoritarianism that has been undermining the daily lives of Brazilians, in a country with such serious and urgent challenges to tackle.
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27 Dec 2019
Public Note #12 – Statement regarding the attack against the production company Porta dos Fundos
The Arns Comission express solidarity with all the members of Porta dos Fundos. Freedom of expression is a non-negotiable right, an achievement of our young democracy, and we can never put it at risk.
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8 Dec 2019
Public Note #11 – Preventing violence by the private security sector
Although the crimes were committed by "security guards", who are often outsourced, one must not fail to recognize the civil liability of the legal entities or individuals, who hold power in these spaces used for criminal conduct, and in some cases, the criminal liability itself, for the reparation and consequences of these criminal acts.
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6 Dec 2019
The Arns Commission monitors allegations of torture in prisons
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2 Dec 2019
Public Note #10 – In repudiation of police violence in the community of Paraisópolis
The Arns Commission calls on all sectors of society to say “enough” to the State’s arbitrariness and violence, which mainly affects the young and Black population that lives in Brazilian peripheries.
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25 Nov 2019
The Arns Commission meets with the Washington Office on Latin America (Wola)
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23 Nov 2019
Public Note #9 – In memory of Rabbi Henry Sobel (1944-2019)
Sobel will always be remembered for those days of pain and fearlessness. However, his trajectory lies beyond those moments. Human rights defenders in Brazil know that they were able to count on the rabbi's support and words at crucial moments.
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13 Nov 2019
Public Note #8 – Threats to democracy and human rights
By proposing the adoption of exceptional measures absolutely foreign to the Constitution and the democratic regime it establishes, Eduardo Bolsonaro once again performed an act of absolute lack of commitment to fundamental rights, the separation of powers, the federation, and popular voting, which are all values protected as stony clauses by article 60, paragraph 4 of the Federal Constitution of 1988.
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12 Nov 2019
The Arns Commission and Human Rights Lawyers Collective denounce the President of the Republic to the International Criminal Court
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6 Aug 2019
Public Note #7 – In defense of scientific and research institutions
Other attacks devoid of well-founded arguments and, therefore, pusillanimous and cowardly, have been perpetrated by the President of the Republic and his ministers against national science and research.
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3 Aug 2019
Public Note #6 – Solidarity to the journalists from The Intercept Brasil
Today, in denouncing the atmosphere of intimidation against Glenn Greenwald and his team, the Arns Commission joins the democratic voices that, once again in Brazil, are raised to remember that there is no possible coexistence between journalism and authoritarianism.
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2 Aug 2019
Public Note #5 – In Defense of the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances
The President of the Republic, whether by dismantling the Commission, or even before, by depriving it of the resources to act, under the pretext of now calling itself “a right-wing government”, ignores the Democratic Rule of Law and the need to comply with the law and judicial decisions, in order to govern the country for all Brazilians.
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1 Aug 2019
Public Note #4 – In deference to the right to memory and truth
It is an urgent moment for solving the problem of increasing unemployment rates, rebuilding the economy, and strengthening democratic freedoms, without hate speech and statements/words that only divide and destroy.
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28 Jun 2019
The Arns Commission and the IDDD denounce the dismantling of the agency against torture to the PGR
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18 Jun 2019
Public Note #3 – For the preservation of Criminal Justice principles
The Arns Commission declares its concern with the non-observance of the constitutional principles that govern the punitive activity of the State, oriented at the preservation of human dignity and individual rights, and which constitute one of the pillars of the Democratic Rule of Law.
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5 Jun 2019
Public Note #2 – In support of the Waimiri Atroari people
The threat that currently looms over this people stems from the Manaus-Boa Vista Electricity Interconnection Program, due to the construction of the Tucuruí Transmission Line.
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