Items tagged with brazil
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| Crack cocaine is king in Brazil: What Sao Paulo is doing about it [25.04.2014] | São Paulo's Cracolândia has been here for 15 years. Its population hovered around 1,500. The city recently took over a collection of flophouses aroun ... |
| Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
| Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
| Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| Crack cocaine users: New data from Brazil [15.10.2013] | Last September, the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Justice presented data of two key surveys – “Estimated number of crack and similar drug users ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [08.05.2013] | Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation ... |
| Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [08.05.2013] | With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [25.02.2013] | The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began ... |
| Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [14.01.2013] | The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ... |
| Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30.12.2012] | With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legality an ... |
| Ex-president slams Brazil's tough anti-drug bill [25.12.2012] | A bill calling for tougher sentences for drug possession and mandatory internment of addicts in Brazil has drawn fire from ex-president Fernando Henr ... |
| Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24.10.2012] | Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers ... |
| Q&A: “Pacification of favelas not a real public policy yet” [17.09.2012] | The "pacification" of the favelas in this Brazilian city, aimed at driving out armed groups and fighting drug trafficking, has not yet become a fully ... |
| Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio [18.08.2012] | Once crack was introduced about six years ago, Mandela and the surrounding complex of shantytowns became Rio's main outdoor drug market, a "cracoland ... |
| Brazil Launches Campaign to Decriminalise Drug Use [12.07.2012] | A host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalise drug use in Brazil, as tens ... |
| A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac ... |
| Latin America's fatal prison problem [14.05.2012] | Prison riots in Venezuela. Jailbreaks in Mexico. Prison fires in Honduras. Latin America is displaying violent cases of the ails of its prison system ... |
| Where Is Brazil in the Global Drug Debate? [12.04.2012] | At the upcoming Summit of the Americas, President Dilma has an unprecedented opportunity to contribute to building a new architecture for global drug ... |
| ‘Pacification’ of favelas not just a media circus [16.11.2011] | The "take-over" of Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, by heavily armed police and military units was seen by some as a media spectacle ... |
| Slum raids in Rio de Janeiro impress [14.11.2011] | The police blitzes in this Olympic city’s biggest slums are meant to show the world that Rio is winning the fight against violent drug gangs that hav ... |
| João Pedro Chaves Valladares Pádua [03.11.2011] | João Pedro Chaves Valladares Pádua is a criminal lawyer with a master’s degree in Constitutional Law and State Theory from the PUC University in Rio ... |
| In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard [18.07.2011] | About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across th ... |
| Brazilian demonstrations call for legal marijuana [19.06.2011] | Brazilian demonstrators held marches on the weekend calling for marijuana to be legalized after the country's top court ruled the gatherings could go ... |
| From war on drugs to community policing in Rio [01.06.2011] | Four decades after Washington declared its "war on drugs" and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian ... |
| Drugs and prisons in Brazil [09.12.2010] | In Brazil, possession of drugs for personal consumption is punished with educational measures and community service, not prison. In this video, a you ... |
| The Case of Brazil [08.12.2010] | The number of people imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil has increased over the last 20 years, but this has not affected the availability or consu ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Brazil [03.12.2010] | The number of people imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil has increased over the last 20 years, but this has not affected the availability or consu ... |
| Conquering Complexo do Alemão [02.12.2010] | It was a moment that residents of Rio de Janeiro thought would never come. For decades many of the city’s favelas have been ruled by drug traffickers ... |
| Police occupation hurts improved relations with favelas [30.11.2010] | Reports of human rights abuses committed during the police and military occupation of several favelas in this Brazilian city are jeopardising local r ... |
| Militias in Rio de Janeiro [05.11.2010] | Last month the film Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2) was released in Brazil. It is a sequel to the very successful 2007 film Elite Squad, a semi-fict ... |
| Saturation policing criminalises poverty, activists say [02.06.2010] | The policy of a saturation police presence in the favelas or shantytowns that are home to around 20 percent of the population of Rio de Jnaeiro is mer ... |
| Crack untamed: treat users, kill the market [07.05.2010] | Brazil will soon have a special police task force targeting crack-cocaine. Meanwhile, the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais proposes its own drug fight ... |
| Stepping away from the darkness [01.09.2009] | The experiences of countries that have decriminalised drugs show that fears of explosions in drugs use are unfounded. |
| Too many in jail for drugs offenses in Brazil [13.08.2009] | The Ministry of Justice in Brazil announced the results of research that show that there are too many people behind bars in Brazil for drug trafficki ... |
| Setting sights on future of drug policy [05.08.2009] | Participants of the Seminar "Drugs Policies: Progresses and Retrocessions", held in Rio de Janeiro by Viva Rio and the Federal University of Rio de J ... |
| Drug Policy and the Courts: A Brazilian experience [01.08.2009] | This report is a personal response from the author on the issue of Drug Policy and The Courts. A year ago, in the author’s professional practice, he ... |
| Mixed reviews for ‘community policing’ in slums [21.05.2009] | The police, who used to shoot first and ask questions later in Santa Marta, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, are now getting on well with the local commu ... |
| Tráfico de drogas e Constituição [01.03.2009] | This study commissioned by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice underlines the disparity that exists between the depenalization of drug use and the incr ... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use [01.07.2008] | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemo ... |
| 'Paco' Under Scrutiny [01.10.2006] | Based on two studies carried out in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this report examines the origin, characteristics and impact of the exp ... |
| Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil [01.10.1999] | This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they ... |
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