Scientific Publications

Understanding Violence in the Brazilian Amazon The Brazilian Amazon is often portrayed as a region of underdevelopment and extreme violence. Security experts commonly attribute its conflicts to state abandonment and lack of governance. From early 20th-century struggles to the modern-day expansion of drug trafficking factions, […]

Online Emergency Protective Measures to Improve Access to Justice Violence against women in the Amazon has the worst indicators in the country. Crimes like femicide and domestic violence-related bodily harm reach alarming levels in the region. Territorial vastness, poor preventive public policies, and lack of […]

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Many jurists and politicians insist on justifying the use of torture. In this paper I will analyze the results of the detention and interrogation program of CIA, set up in 2002 to investigate and prevent future terrorist attacks. I will demonstrate, using Foucault’s methodology for […]