The Killings in Candelária and Vigário Geral
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Human rights
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Author :
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Human rights
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Author : James Cavallaro
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564322111
Police torture in Brazil
Author : Ben Penglase
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564321237
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Author : Julia Rochester
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
On 23 July 1993, off-duty policemen opened fire on a group of street children who were sleeping outside one of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent landmarks--the Church of Our Lady of the Candelária. The incident became known as the Candelária Massacre and it roused the people of Rio to the streets in protest. Shortly before the shootings, the policemen picked up three boys and took them off in their car to be shot elsewhere. One of them, Wagner dos Santos, survived and his survival altered the political landscape of Brazil. This book tells his story--growing up in Rio's orphanages and gangland favelas; being shot during the massacre then being shot again a year later in attempt to silence his testimony; and being forced into exile for his own safety.
Author : Bruno Paes Manso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319131656
This volume aims to explain the mechanisms for the “epidemic-like” rise in homicide rates São Paulo, Brazil during the late 20th century as well as their sharp decrease after 2000. The homicide rates increased 900 percent from 1960s-2000, and then dropped relatively quickly to 1970s levels over the next decade. While the author finds the Brazilian military government and rise of para-military police forces to be a major factor in the rise of homicide rates in Brazil, research on violent crime trends has demonstrated that it is generally due to the intersection of many factors (for example changes in policing, social or political structures, availability of weapons, economic influences) rather than a single cause. This work integrates individual, neighborhood, and structural dynamics at play in both the rise and drop in homicide rates, and provides a framework for understanding similar phenomena in other regions, particularly in the developing world. This book will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as political science, and international relations, particularly with an interest in South America. The methodology includes both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Michael Bochenek
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Child abuse
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Author : Joanne Mariner
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564321954
Access to the Press
Author : Douglas A. Chalmers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191525138
Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America. Recent Latin American governments have turned away from redistributive policies; at the same time, popular political and social organizations have been generally weakened, inequality has increased, and the gap between rich and poor has grown. Hanging in the balance is the consolidation and the quality of new or would-be democracies; this volume suggests that governments must find not just short-term programmes to alleviate poverty, but long-term means to ensure the effective integration of the poor into political life. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America bridges the intellectual chasm between, on the one hand, studies of grassroots politics, and on the other, explorations of elite politics and formal institution-building. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Latin American politics and society and, more generally, in the vicissitudes of democracy and citizenship in the late twentieth-century global system.
Author : L. Lehnen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137313366
Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.