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Civil Society and NGO Reports, Papers and Statements

Informe de CLADEM-BRASIL a la Reportera Especial de Naciones Unidas sobre Violencia contra la Mujer, sus causas y consecuencias
Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer
El Informe Especifico de Brasil que la sección nacional del Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer - CLADEM-Brasil - presenta a la Reportera Especial de Naciones Unidas sobre Violencia contra la Mujer, sus causas y consecuencias, tiene el objectivo de: brindar informaciones adicionales a las aquellas ya inclusas en el Informe General de América Latina y el Caribe presentado a la Reportera por la red regional CLADEM, a cerca de la violencia contra las mujeres en el país, y servir como aporte para la evaluación del grado, estado y nivel de implementación de las recomendaciones hechas al Estado Brasileño en el tema de la violencia doméstica.

Discrimination and Violence are Being Challenged by the Black Women’s Movement in Brazil
War on Want, on-going
Discrimination and violence are being challenged by the black women’s movement in Brazil. In 1990, a women’s group in the Baixada Santista region of São Paulo state established the Black Women’s Centre, the first of its kind in Brazil. The center’s main aim is to help women of any race, who have suffered violence at home, work, or in the street, and to provide them with free legal advice, counseling and job training. The center's lawyers, psychologists and social workers work with the police, courts and government to try and increase the number of abusers being brought to justice. They are hoping to change the police's attitude to women who suffer violence and to make health workers more sensitive to women’s problems.

Criminal Injustice, Violence Against Women in Brazil
Human Rights Watch, 1 October 1991
The Brazilian government is failing to prosecute violence against women in the home fully and fairly. Despite ever-increasing domestic violence (particularly wife-murder, battery and rap) impunity and discriminatory treatment in favor of the perpetrators of domestic violence are still the rule in the Brazilian justice system. Over 70 percent of all reported cases of violence against women take place in the home. Of these reported cases, a statistically insignificant number never result in punishment of the accused. In this report, the Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch and Americas Watch make a series of recommendations designed to promote equal protection of the law in Brazil without regard to gender.

UN Documents

Report on the mission of the Special Rapporteur to Brazil on the issue of domestic violence
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, 21 January 1997
At the invitation of the Government of Brazil, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences visited Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Campinas and Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 15 to 26 July 1996, to study in depth the issue of domestic violence against women. The present report is intended as a case study to complement the Special Rapporteur's previous report on violence against women in the family, presented to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-second session.

Government and Statements Reports

Combined initial, second, third, fourth and fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Government of Brazil, November 2002
The Committee has adopted guidelines to help states prepare these reports. According to these guidelines, the initial report is intended to be a detailed and comprehensive description of the position of women in that country at the time of submission; it is meant to provide a benchmark against which subsequent progress can be measured. Second and subsequent national reports are intended to update the previous report, detailing significant developments that have occurred over the last four years, noting key trends, and identifying obstacles to the full achievement of the Convention.

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women “Convention of Belem Do Para”
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, 9 June 1994
The Convention affirms that violence against women constitutes a violation of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, and that the elimination of violence against women is essential for their individual and social development and their full and equal participation in all walks of life.

Convencao Interamericana para Prevenir, Punir e Erradicar a Violência Contra a Mulher "Convencao Belém do Pará"
Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos, Organizacao dos Estados Americanos, em 9 de junho de 1994
A Convencao afirme que a violência contra a mulher constitui violação dos direitos humanos e liberdades fundamentais, e que a eliminação da violência contra a mulher é condição indispensável para seu desenvolvimento individual e social e sua plena e igualitária participação em todas as esferas de vida.

Convención Interamericana Para Prevenir Sancionar Y Erradicar La Violencia Contra La Mujer "Convención De Belém Do Pará"
Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Organización de los Estados Americanos, el 9 de junio 1994
La Convención afirme que la violencia contra la mujer constituye una violación de los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentals, y que la eliminación de la violencia contra la mujer es condición indispensable para su desarrollo individual y social y su plena e igualitaria participación en todas las esferas de vida.

Books, Journals and Articles

Women in Brazil Take a Stand Against Guns
Amnesty International. The Wire. February 2003
In the last 10 years, 300,000 people have been killed in Brazil, largely as a result of urban violence and the proliferation of guns in the country. While 24 men are killed for every one woman, every death leaves a grieving mother, wife, sister, girlfriend or friend. Now the women of Brazil are uniting to try to put an end to the terrifying escalation of violence and gun crime.