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In Brazil, the National Truth Commission (Comissão Nacional da Verdade) investigated human rights violations of the period of 1946–1988 - in particular by the authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from April 1, 1964 to March 15, 1985.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Amnesty law, Argentina, Brasília, Brasil: Nunca Mais, Brazil, Brazilian Military Criminal Code, Carlos Brilhante Ustra, Cezar Peluso, DNA database, Enforced disappearance, Erika Kokay, Federal District (Brazil), Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Human rights, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Maria Rita Kehl, Military dictatorship in Brazil, Ministry of justice, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Politics of Brazil, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo, Rubens Paiva, The Washington Post, World Council of Churches.

  2. Human rights in Brazil
  3. Political repression in Brazil

Amnesty law

An amnesty law is any legislative, constitutional or executive arrangement that retroactively exempts a select group of people, usually military leaders and government leaders, from criminal liability for the crimes that they committed.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Brasília

Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region.

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Brasil: Nunca Mais

Brasil: Nunca Mais (Portuguese for Brazil: Never Again) is a book edited by Paulo Evaristo Arns in which episodes of torture under the military dictatorship in Brazil between 1964 and 1979 are documented.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian Military Criminal Code

The military criminal code instituted under the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s created military courts to try certain crimes committed by military personnel, in particular crimes against humanity committed at the order of the Brazilian executive. National Truth Commission and Brazilian Military Criminal Code are human rights in Brazil.

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Carlos Brilhante Ustra

Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (28 July 1932 – 15 October 2015) was a Brazilian army officer, politician and known torturer who served as a colonel in the Brazilian Army. National Truth Commission and Carlos Brilhante Ustra are military dictatorship in Brazil.

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Cezar Peluso

Antonio Cezar Peluso (born 3 September 1942) is a Brazilian jurist.

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DNA database

A DNA database or DNA databank is a database of DNA profiles which can be used in the analysis of genetic diseases, genetic fingerprinting for criminology, or genetic genealogy.

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Enforced disappearance

An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

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Erika Kokay

Erika Jucá Kokay (born 15 August 1957) is a Brazilian politician.

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Federal District (Brazil)

The Federal District (Distrito Federal) is one of 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023.

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Maria Rita Kehl

Maria Rita Kehl, ORB (born December 10, 1951) is a Brazilian psychoanalyst, journalist, poet, essayist, cronista and literary critic.

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Military dictatorship in Brazil

The military dictatorship in Brazil (ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against president João Goulart.

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Ministry of justice

A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice.

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Paulo Evaristo Arns

Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM (14 September 1921 – 14 December 2016) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was made a cardinal and the Archbishop of São Paulo by Pope Paul VI, and later became cardinal protopriest.

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Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (born 8 January 1944) is a Brazilian legal scholar with relevant work within the United Nations System.

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Politics of Brazil

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo

The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.

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Rubens Paiva

Rubens Paiva (December 26, 1929 – January 20, 1971) was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician who, as a Congressman at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, opposed the implementation of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1968.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism.

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See also

Human rights in Brazil

Political repression in Brazil

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Truth_Commission

Also known as Brazilian 1979 Amnesty Law, Brazilian National Truth Commission, Comissão Nacional da Verdade, Comissão da Verdade.