HRP Executive Director Jim Cavallaro and Global Advocacy Fellow Raquel Ferreira Dodge discuss the May 2006 criminal
attacks in São Paulo, Brazil with latest article in ReVista
Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Human Rights Program (HRP) at Harvard Law School, Prof. Jim Cavallaro,
and HRP Global Advocacy Fellow Raquel Ferreira Dodge dissect the May 2006 uprising of gang violence in São Paulo, Brazil, and
the subsequent state response, in the latest issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, from the David Rockefeller Center
for Latin American Studies.
Their article, “Understanding the São Paulo Attacks,” examines the origins of The First Command of the Capital (Primeiro
Comando da Capital), the organized criminal group responsible for the May 2006 wave of violence that shut down the city, and
looks at the state’s response in the days that followed. The article also discusses the research undertaken by a coalition of
Brazilian organizations and researchers at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program to look at organized criminal violence groups,
and the public policies adopted to address crime.
“The focus of this work has been to document the phenomenon of rising crime and to identify methods of official response
that are both effective and consistent with human rights and the rule of law,” Cavallaro and Doge write. “The research focus
is driven by the Human Rights Program’s concern with the role of crime and state response in the protection of human rights in
the Americas and beyond.”
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HRP Clinical Advocacy Fellow Adrienne Fricke comments on problem of rape in Darfur
with new report from Refugees International
Human Rights Program (HRP) Clinical Advocacy Fellow Adrienne Fricke (2006-2007) has spent the last
five months working closely as a consultant with Refugees International (RI) on a report looking at rape laws and the extent of rape
in Darfur. The report, Laws Without Justice: An Assessment of Sudanese Laws Affecting Survivors of Rape, is based on extensive
interviews with activists, attorneys, NGO representatives, and members of parliament during a March 2007 field mission to Sudan’s
capital, Khartoum.
The report calls on Sudan’s government to urgently reform its rape laws, concluding that current laws governing rape
expose victims to further abuse, and that prosecution of rape is functionally impossible because Sudan grants immunity
to individuals with government affiliations.
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