New Data on Censorship and Harassment of Brazil’s Educators

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Students in a classroom in a state public school in Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, May 17, 2023. © Joa Souza/Imago via Reuters A new quantitative study from National Observatory on Violence Against Educators represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to date to measure the nature and scale of censorship and harassment of educators across Brazil.While previous analyses have documented the legal and political tactics to undermine or prohibit human rights education, this new report offers a nationally representative dataset showing the problem’s…

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