An alternative news source in Brazil, building bridges to social movements working for a better world
BRAZIL JUSTICE NET (known also in Portuguese as SEJUP--Servico Brasileiro de Justica e Paz) specializes in preparing news and reports in English about Brazilian human rights and social issues. Among the issues we cover are agrarian reform, indigenous issues, environment, the churches, women's issues, violence, racism, children, grassroots movements. We hope to serve as a bridge between Brazilian grassroots organizations who use Portuguese as a working language and groups and individuals in other parts of the world interested in the news, concerns and views of such Brazilian organizations.
Rise in health problems for indigenous peoples
June 11, 2008 The recent occupations of public buildings propagated by indigenous are reactions to the ineffectiveness of public policies, especially in the area of health.
Ten thousand, five hundred Indians are isolated in Raposa Serra do Sol
June 11, 2008 The Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR) estimates that 10,500 Indians may be isolated in the indigenous land Raposa Serra do Sol [in the northern state of Roraima (RR)], since the rice farmers burned the bridges over the small rivers of Araçá and Araujinho.
Update on Dorothy Stang case
May 21, 2008 A court decision in Para has acquitted a rancher who was being held as one of the ones responsible for the murder of Sr. Dorothy Stang
Leaders believe Courts will uphold Raposa Serra do Sol decision
May 7, 2008 The demarcation of indigenous land in Bahia is once again being threatened by a rice farmer, but leaders are hopeful that the courts will uphold an earlier decision which granted land recognition to the indigenous.
After Seven Years, Maria da Penha Is Indemnified
April 23, 2008 The Maria da Penha case received much attention in the past, including that of the OAS which recommended that the state of Ceará pay her twenty thousand dollars in reparation for the state's participation in impunity in the case. Her case was instrumental in new legislation which made aggression against women a crime. After seven years, she recently was indeminified by the state of Ceará.
Conflicts continue over indigenous lands April 11, 2008
Even though the indigenous lands of Raposa Serra do Sol have been recognized as such by the government, the indigenous continue to have problems with local farmers.
