Human Rights

Brazil is a key site for the study of human rights. Our faculty examine challenges related to crime and policing, incarceration, and gendered violence, in addition to studying policy innovations that seek to create a more just and equitable world.

 

Related Events

• A Look at Inequality and Violence in Brazil from Rio de Janeiro, a lecture by Lucas Louback – Spring 2022
• Insurgent Voices in Brazil's Lethal Democracy, panel discussion with Débora Maria Silva, Rute Fiúza, and Mônica Cunha – Spring 2022
• Can Brazil Defeat The Far-Right?: Similarities and Difference Between US 2020 and Brazil 2022 – Spring 2022
• Keep the Bones Alive: A Conversation on Disappearance, Exclusion, and Resistance in Dystopian Brazil – Spring 2022
• Affirmative Action in Brazil: From Quotas for Black Students to Quotas for Public School Students, a lecture by Dr. Sales Augusto dos Santos – Spring 2022
• Embodied Blackness in Artistic and Ritualistic Performances, a lecture by Gustavo Melo Cerqueira – Fall 2021
• Precarious Democracy Book Launch and Panel Discussion – Fall 2021
• Sônia Guajajara at the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies – Fall 2021
• Afro-Brazilian Religions and Religious Racism, a lecture by Dr. Gustavo Melo Cerqueira – Fall 2021
• Celebrating Palmares: DJ Set in Honor of Brazilian Black Consciousness Month – Fall 2021
• The Distinguished Brazilian Scholar Panel: Racism, Social Exclusion, and the Burden of Substance – Spring 2021
• Race, Racism, and Resistance in Latin America Lecture Series
  • Art and Empowerment: Kadiwéu Women’s Pottery – Spring 2021
  • Afro-Brazilians Struggle for Citizenship – Fall 2020
• The Bottleneck of the Brazilian Criminal Justice System: Lessons Learned from a Case Study,Dr. Ludmila Ribeiro – Spring 2020
• 2020 California Brazilianist Conference,Understanding Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives – Spring 2020
• Film Screening: Marighella (2019)  – Spring 2020
• State Violence and Mass Incarceration in Brazil: The Precarity of Black Lives in the Bolsonaro Era, Activists Isadora Salomao & Nana Oliveira – Fall 2019
• Public Security, the Military and the New Conservative Agenda in Brazil, Dr. Arthur Trindade M. Costa – Fall 2019
• 6th International Conference on the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families – Spring 2019
• Workshop on Low-Income Housing – Spring 2019

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