Public Notes
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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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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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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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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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24 May 2019
Public Note #1 – In support of the São Paulo Police Ombudsman
The Arns Commission understands that, from the experience of its members, the Ombudsman must continue to operate and act, in order to ensure its mission as a collaborative public security governance body, and only those indifferent to law enforcement and the safeguard of the constitutional rights of citizens should be afraid of it.
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