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President Michel Temer of Brazil addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly..
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‘Old forms of intolerance are being rekindled,’ unilateralism re-emerging, Brazil warns at UN Assembly

25 September 2018
UN Affairs

The first Head of State to address the seventy-third general debate of the United Nations General Assembly, Michel Temer, President of Brazil, denounced the rising tide of isolationism, intolerance and unilateralism that was challenging international order.

UNHCR staff verify and assist Venezuelan refugees, asylum seekers and persons of concern at the recently opened Rondon I shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima, in northern Brazil.
UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno

Key Brazilian border crossing for Venezuela refugees reopens as asylum numbers pass last year's total

7 August 2018
Migrants and Refugees

Some 117,000 Venezuelans have claimed asylum already this year — more than for the whole of 2017 — the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, after welcoming a decision by the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court to reverse the closure of the country’s border with its northern neighbour.

In inland Bahia, a northeastern state in Brazil, UNICEF and its partners found Yasmin and her sisters and took the girls to school.
UNICEF/Raoni Libório

‘Economy is society’s servant, not its master,’ say UN rights experts, urging Brazil to put human rights before austerity

3 August 2018
Human Rights

Marginalized groups suffer unduly harsh consequences due to Brazil’s economic policies of austerity, prompting United Nations rights experts to urge the Government to instead prioritize human rights.