Brazil: Mixed Rights Record for Lula’s First Year

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Activists protest to demand the end to racism and police violence, after a series of cases in several states of excessive, often deadly, force by police, São Paulo, Brazil, August 24, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Andre Penner (São Paulo) – The administration led by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made important progress in the protection of the Amazon, women’s rights, and other rights during 2023, but has failed to tackle the chronic problem of police abuse or defend human rights consistently abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report…

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