A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights
Table of contents
Preface ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 005
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 011
I. Human Rights in the Countryside
The (Old) New Agrarian Issue, and Agribusiness …………………………………………………. 019
José Juliano de Carvalho Filho
Agricultural Industries take over new territory and feed violence ………………………… 027
Antônio Canuto
Agro-energy: Myths and Impacts ……………………………………………………………………………. 037
Maria Luisa Mendonça e Marluce Melo
Work in the sugarcane mills of São Paulo ……………………………………………………………… 047
Evanize Sydow
Slave Labor and Promiscuity among Brazilian Authorities …………………………………… 051
Ricardo Rezende Figueira
Quilombolas: Struggles and Resistance in 2007 …………………………………………………….. 057
Roberto Rainha
Brazilian Quilombolas and reminiscences of the past …………………………………………… 063
Aton Fon Filho
HUMAN RIGHTS IN BRAZIL 2007
The Guarani-Kaiowá Holocaust and Anti-indigenous Violence in Brazil ……………. 071
Paulo Maldos
GMOs and the Rights of Growers ………………………………………………………………………… 081
Gabriel B. Fernandes
Putting Out Suns ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 085
Leandro Gaspar Scalabrin
The Right to Stewardship ………………………………………………………………………………………… 091
Jelson Oliveira
The complex situation of the human right to water ……………………………………………… 097
Roberto Malvezzi
The Shamelessness of Silviculture: Environmental
Destruction and Human Rights Violations …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 103
Jelson Oliveira
II. Human Rights in Urban Areas
Preliminary Conclusions of the Special UN Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Summary, or
Extra-judicial Executions in Brazil …………………………………………………………………………… 113
Public Security in the State of Rio de Janeiro ………………………………………………………… 121
Alessandro Molon
Walls of Shame …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 125
Luiz Bassegio e Luciane Udovic
Trafficking in Persons: advances in institutionalization and in critical thinking …….. 129
Marcia Sprandel
A brief sketch of urban policies on the promotion of the human right to
housing ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 139
Nelson Saule Júnior e Patrícia de Menezes Cardoso
Insecurity, Contradictions, and Risks of Nuclear Activity …………………………………….. 149
Zoraide Vilasboas
For Justice that Keeps Truth in Memory ………………………………………………………………… 153
Suzana Angélica Paim Figuerêdo
The Right to Memory and the Truth ………………………………………………………………………. 159
Suzana Keniger Lisboa
III. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Human Rights for Women and Violence Against
Women: Advances and Limits of the Maria da Penha Law ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 167
Cecília MacDowell Santos
White rights. Black rights. Human rights …………………………………………………………………. 177
Douglas Elias Belchior
Debate about Development in the Amazonian Context………………………………………. 183
Lindomar Silva
The Right to Food ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 193
Maria Luisa Mendonça
The Debate about the Education Development Plan …………………………………………… 199
Mariângela Graciano e Sérgio Haddad
IV. International Policy and Human Rights
Internal and External Public Debt as I
mpediments to the Achievement of HumanRights……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 207
Maria Lucia Fattorelli Carneiro
UN Troops Accused of Human Rights Violations in Haiti …………………………………. 217
Maria Luisa Mendonça