Brazil: In response to COVID-19, authorities must ensure adequate access to healthcare for marginalized groups

On a livestream from its YouTube channel, on 14 May 2020, at 19:00 local time (23:00 BST), Amnesty International Brazil will launch its campaign Our Lives Matter, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning Brazilian authorities that nobody should be left behind in the response to the crisis. Federal, state and municipal authorities must take concrete and urgent steps to minimise the grave impacts of COVID-19 on people living in favelas, Indigenous peoples, those deprived of their liberty, members of Afro-descendant communities, health professionals, workers in the informal sector, women and…

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