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Human Rights Group Prepares Report on Police Violence in Rio
Dhesca Brasil Platform will be in Complexo do Alemão to meet with activists, representatives of community movements, mothers and relatives of victims of the state.
By Contributing Reporter - September 9, 2017
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The human rights group, Dhesca Brasil Platform, has started a four-day mission to investigate police violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The research effort started today (September 9th), in Complexo do Alemão, and will continue through Tuesday, September 12th.
The international organization brings together forty civil society organizations in the areas of human, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s Zona Norte (North Zone) encompasses fifteen favela communities with an estimated 70,000 residents. The pacification program was launched there in 2008 with the first installation of UPPs (police pacification units), and in 2010 federal armed forces came to Rio to support police in a battle for the streets, but deadly violence has remained.
Global Justice and Dhesca Platform representative, Melisandra Trentin, says she and the Rio de Janeiro mission rapporteur, Orlando Santos Junior, will meet with activists, representatives of community movements, mothers and relatives of victims of the state.
More:
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/human-rights-group-prepares-report-on-police-violence-in-rio/