The IACHR is worried about the future of human rights with Bolsonaro

The President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Margarette May Macaulay, worried about the future of human rights. man in Brazil and appeals to Jair Bolsonaro .

The future government of Brazil must " respect the human rights of all Brazilians from each one of them ," Macaulay badured at the same time. a press conference on the occasion of which the IACHR, a commission linked to the Organization of American States (OAS), finalized a two-week visit to Brazil to the one who badessed the country's situation with regard to human rights.

Although no member of the Commission referred to Bolsonaro under his own name, the IACHR showed concern with problems that the extreme right quoted from his campaign ] the empowerment of the armed forces, the limitation of workers' rights and the possibility of reducing the age of crime.

The IACHR asked to limit the speeches of " on Intolerance and Hatred " that affect LGTBI communities, women, people, and other people. African descent, indigenous peoples, rural workers, because they "distort, discredit and stigmatize the role and function of human rights."

For the Commission, which a few years ago, he did not go to Brazil, the human rights situation in the South American giant is "critical" because is a country that " n & # Failed to resolve racial and social discrimination ", and a reform of justice is needed.

Aspects of Greater Concern

Among the aspects of greatest concern to the members of the Commission are those related to "] inequality and deep discrimination" " in a country whose legal institutional framework is weakened and which requires reform.

According to the report of the IACHR, the poor and people of African descent continue to be the main victims of human rights violations in Brazil, while executions extrajudicial actions by police and state agents remain unpunished and unchallenged by the courts.

Social exclusion, impunity, the situation of the prison population, who does not have access to health and dignified hygienic conditions, as well as the repeated violations committed against the Indigenous Peoples and repeated attacks on their right to land were underlined by the IACHR Report [1]. .