Contribution to the 27th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review Submission on Brazil

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Written By PEN International

PEN International, PEN Canada, and the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law welcome the opportunity provided by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to comment on the climate for free expression – a right protected under domestic1 and international law2 – and the situation of writers and journalists in the Federal Republic of Brazil since the last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 25 May 2012.

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