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To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
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BRAZIL
Title:
Habeas Corpus 86.289-6 - Goiás
Court:
Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
Date:
June 6, 2006
CRC Provisions:
Article 34: Sexual exploitation
Domestic Provisions:
Code of Children and...
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[14 August 2012] - As Brazil prepares to host two of the world's largest public sporting spectacles, the Olympics and the World Cup, thousands of people living in poor urban areas are facing forced evictions or have already been displaced by...
[16 July 2012] - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder of Lucas Ribeiro Pimentel, a 15-year-old adolescent who self-identified as gay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
According to the information received, Lucas...
[22 May 2012] - São Paulo football club, Portuguesa Santista, [has been] convicted of using players aged 14-16 in a situation of precarious work: 12 boys shared three double mattresses in an insanitary bed-sitter with an empty fridge....
