Country of Origin Information Key Documents Brazil 28 January 2009 uk border Agency
|
|  Yüklə 2.17 Mb.
|
|
Return to Contents Go to List of Sources References to source material [1] Oanda.com, FX Converter, Currency Converter http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Date accessed 13 November 2008 [2] United States Department of State (USSD) http://www.state.gov a Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2007, 11 March 2008 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100630.htm Date accessed 3 November 2008 b International Religious Freedom Report 2008, 19 September 2008 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108516.htm Date accessed 3 November 2008 c Background Note: Brazil, last updated January 2009 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35640.htm Date accessed 5 January 2009 d Trafficking in Persons Report, 4 June 2008 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/105387.htm Date accessed 3 November 2008 e Country Reports on Terrorism 2007: Brazil, 30 April 2008 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2007/103710.htm Date accessed 3 November 2008 f Travel advice agency, Brazil Visa Recipricocity Schedule http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciprocity/reciprocity_3521.html Date accessed 27 November 2008 [3] Constitution The Constitution of Brazil, adopted on 5 October 1988 http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/br00000_.html Date accessed 4 November 2008 [4] Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) UK http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/ a Country Profile: Brazil, last reviewed January 2009 http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/south-america/brazil?profile=all Date accessed 7 January 2009 b Human Rights Annual Report 2007, March 2008 http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/human-rights-report-2007 Date accessed 4 November 2008 [5] Human Rights Watch (HRW) http://www.hrw.org/ a World Report 2008: Brazil, 31 January 2008 http://hrw.org/englishwr2k8/docs/2008/01/31/brazil17765.htm Date accessed 4 November 2008 b Universal Periodic Review of Brazil, HRW’s Submission to the UN Human Rights Council, 7 April 2008 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/10/global18497.htm Date accessed 7 November 2008 c Brazil: Report on Past Atrocities a Key Step Forward, 31 August 2007 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/08/31/brazil16783.htm Date accessed 7 November 2008 [6] United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) http://www.unhcr.org [7] British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ a Country Profile: Brazil, last updated 4 December 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1227110.stm Date accessed 5 December 2008 b Timeline: Brazil, last updated 4 December 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1231075.stm Date accessed 5 December 2008 c ‘Brazil foresees population slump’, 9 October 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7660413.stm Date accessed 7 November 2008 d ‘Lula setback in Brazil city poll’, 27 October 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7691688.stm Date accessed 7 November 2008 e ‘Brazil oil boom ‘to end poverty’’, 8 September 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7603655.stm Date accessed 7 November 2008 f ‘Flood deaths in Brazil rise to 84’, 25 November 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7747456.stm Date accessed 27 November 2008 g ‘Latin America tops murder tables’, 26 November 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7750054.stm Date accessed 27 November 2008 [9] Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) http://www.cpj.org Attacks on the Press: 2007, 5 February 2008 http://www.cpj.org/2008/02/attacks-on-the-press-2007-brazil.php
a Annual Human Rights Report 2008: Brazil, Covering events from January to December 2007, 28 May 2008 http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/regions/americas/brazil Date accessed 3 November 2008 b Picking up the Pieces, Women’s experience of urban violence in Brazil, April 2008 http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/BrazilReport08.pdf Date accessed 7 November 2008 c Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries Date accessed 7 November 2008 d Supreme Court Vindicates Indigenous Land Rights, 12 December 2008 http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/brazil-supreme-court-vindicates-indigenous-land-rights-20081212 Date accessed 22 December 2008 [12] Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Country Profile: Brazil http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/Brazil.asp Date accessed 4 November 2008 [13] Pan American Health Organisation – Brazil representation http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eopas%2Eorg%2Ebr%2F Date accessed 27 November 2008 [14] Reporters sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders) http://www.rsf.org Annual Report 2008: Brazil http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25554&Valider=OK Date accessed 4 November 2008 [15] Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers http://www.child-soldiers.org Global Report 2008: Brazil http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/content/brazil Date accessed 4 November 2008 [16] International Crisis Group (ICG) http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1 a Latin American Drugs 1: Losing the Fight, 14 March 2008 http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/latin_america/25_latin_american_drugs_i_losing_the_fight_final.pdf Date accessed 4 November 2008 b Latin American Drugs II: Improving Policy and Reducing Harm, 14 March 2008 http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/latin_america/_latin_american_drugs_ii__improving_policy_and_reducing_harm_final.pdf Date accessed 4 November 2008 [17] United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) http://www.undp.org/ Brazil Country Profile http://www.undp.org/povertyreport/ENGLISH/ARprofil.pdf Date accessed 4 November 2008 [18] World Health Organisation (WHO) http://www.who.int/en/ a Mental Health Atlas 2005, Country Profiles: Brazil http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/atlas/profiles_countries_a_b.pdf Date accessed 4 November 2008 b Country Profile: Brazil http://www.who.int/countries/bra/en/
Map of Brazil http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/brazil_rel94.pdf Date accessed 13 November 2008 [20] US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) http://www.refugees.org/ World Refugee Survey, Brazil, published 19 June 2008 http://www.refugees.org/countryreports.aspx?id=2121 Date accessed 5 November 2008 [21] Minority Rights Group International http://www.minorityrights.org/ a Brazil Overview, undated http://www.minorityrights.org/5289/brazil/brazil-overview.html Date accessed 5 November 2008 b State of the World’s Minorities 2008, published 11 March 2008 http://www.minorityrights.org/6138/state-of-the-worlds-minorities/state-of-the-worlds-minorities-2008.html Date accessed 22 December 2008 [22] International Federation for Human Rights http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?rubrique2 Steadfast in Protest, Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Annual Report 2007, 19 June 2008 http://www.omct.org/pdf/Observatory/2008/annual_report_2007/splitted/report2007obs_eng_americas.pdf?PHPSESSID=68d7bb5ed4affdfbded85825d33690f6 Date accessed 6 November 2008 [23] War Resisters' International http://www.wri-irg.org/from-off.htm Brazil: Refusing to Bear Arms, 6 May 1998 http://www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/brazil.htm Date accessed 3 November 2008 [24] Gaytimes http://www.gaytimes.co.uk http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/Hotspots/GayGuide-action-Country-countryid-216.html Date accessed 3 November 2008 [25] Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx a Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Concluding Observations, 10 August 2007 http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/460/25/PDF/N0746025.pdf?OpenElement Date accessed 6 November 2008 b UN General Assembly Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review for Brazil, published 22 May 2008 http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session1/BR/A_HRC_8_27_Brazil_E.pdf Date accessed 6 November 2008 c Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mission to Brazil, 29 August 2008 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/executions/docs/A_HRC_11_2_Add_2_English.pdf Date accessed 6 November 2008 [26] Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/ a Freedom in the World 2008: Brazil, published 2 July 2008 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2008&country=7359 Date accessed 4 November 2008 b Freedom of the Press 2007: Brazil, 29 April 2008 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=251&year=2007 Date accessed 4 November 2008 [27] Citizenship Laws of the World Brazil, produced 2000/2001 by the Office of Personnel Government, US Government http://www.multiplecitizenship.com/wscl/ws_BRAZIL.html Date accessed 6 November 2008 [28] Gay City News http://www.gaycitynews.com “President of Brazil: Homophobia is ‘perverse disease’ ’’, 19 June 2008 http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=19787654&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=8 Date accessed 4 November 2008 [29] United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/ At a glance: Brazil http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/brazil.html Date accessed 4 November 2008 [30] Department for International Development (DfID) http://www.dfid.gov.uk Brazil Country Profile, updated 17 November 2004 http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/caribbean/brazil.asp Date accessed 4 November 2008 [31] GlobalGayz http://www.globalgayz.com/ Gay Brazil News and Reports 2008 http://www.globalgayz.com/brazil-news08-01.html Date accessed 6 November 2008 [32] US Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/ 2007 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor – Brazil, published 27 August 2008 http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2007OCFTreport.pdf
Annual Report 2007: Buenos Aires (regional), published 27 May 2008 http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/7EUF2M/$FILE/icrc_ar_07_buenos_aires.pdf?OpenElement Date accessed 6 November 2008 [34] Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int Brazil - country updates http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc104?OpenForm&rc=2&cc=bra Date accessed 4 November 2008 [35] Transparency International http://www.transparency.org Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2008 http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2008 Date accessed 4 November 2008 [36] Minorities at Risk http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/ a Assessment for Afro-Brazilians in Brazil http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=14001 Date accessed 6 November 2008 b Assessment for Amazonian Indians in Brazil http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=14002 Date accessed 6 November 2008 [37] GlobalSecurity.org http://www.globalsecurity.org Brazil Military Guide http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/brazil/index.html Date accessed 6 November 2008 [38] Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/index_e.htm a National Documentation Package – Brazil, 2 April 2008 http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/ndp/index_e.htm?id=617 Date accessed 13 November 2008 b Responses to Information Requests, 14 November 2007, ‘Brazil: Organized crime, including street gangs; state response to combat organized crime in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (January 2005 – October 2007)’ www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=451554 Date accessed 13 November 2008 c Responses to Information Requests, 25 November 2008, ‘Brazil: Domestic Violence, including information on the Maria da Penha law on domestic and family violence and its implementation (2006 – 2008)’ http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/index_e.htm?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=452128 Date accessed 27 November 2008 d Responses to Information Requests, 3 September 2008 “Brazil: The situation of homosexuals; availability of support groups and state protection” http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/index_e.htm?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=452051 Date accessed 27 November 2008 Return to Contents Go to List of Sources |