Human Rights Violations In Brazil

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According to the United Nations, human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. In Brazil, there are many human rights issues that affect the nation in a variety of ways, for example, violence against police civilians and political racism. In an article written by Luis Kawaguti & Gary Duffy for BBC Brazil, the brutality of Police and negligent officials were spoken. Reports of rouge cops making meaningless killings of revenge or taking the law into their own hands were made by many citizens in Sao Paulo. A number of officials made comments stating that they take this issue of police negligence very seriously. Many have replaced and tried to persuade these people. This issue of violence by police officers has to be resolved in the near future due to human rights violations.

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