Ever since its beginning, Justiça Global has based its mission on the commitment to social struggles and has sought to act communally, through dialogue and the promotion of plurality.
We believe in the importance of strengthening social movements and working together with local, national, and international organizations to increase civil society participation more solidly and effectively. Therefore, we are engaged in various networks and have established strategic partnerships with civil society to create spaces and resources. Additionally, we are committed to making our channels available for mobilization around emergencies that affect individuals and groups whose rights have been violated.
Our relationships are guided by the principles of autonomy, transparency, publicity, and respect for human rights.
Get to know the networks we are part of:
Brazil holds the disgraceful third place in the ranking of countries with the largest prison population in the world. It is urgently necessary to close the floodgates of the penal system, by adopting effective measures for decarceration and for confronting structural violence, as opposed to the fruitless insistence on custodial sentences. In this sense, we have set out to build a grassroots program for decarceration and demilitarization, consisting of 10 guidelines and a single axis: the reduction of the country’s prison population.
We are a political coalition comprised of organizations and social movements dedicated to protecting human rights defenders in Rio de Janeiro.
The International Articulation of People Affected by Vale (AIAAV) is a solidarity network that has brought together, since 2009, various groups including trade unionists, environmentalists, NGOs, community-based associations, religious groups, and academics from Brazil and around the world. Its central goal is to contribute to the strengthening of communities connected in a network, promoting strategies to address the socio-environmental impacts related to the extractive mining industry, especially those linked to the company Vale S.A.
An initiative fighting for restrictions on the State’s public security policies, the Coalition is a significant step in the fight against police brutality and institutional racism through the ADPF (Claim of Non-Compliance with a Fundamental Precept) 635, known as the “ADPF of the Favelas”, presented to the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
Created in 2018, the Rights Are Worth More Coalition is an intersectoral effort committed to the democratization of the economy. It is critical of the drastic fiscal adjustment policies adopted by the Brazilian government in recent years. These policies have greatly undermined the State’s ability to protect the population, combat growing poverty, and implement public policies that ensure rights.
A national coalition composed of over 200 black organizations and collectives from across the country, with the aim of advocating in the National Congress and international forums to combat racism and the genocide of the black population in Brazil. It advocates for the rights of the black population living in low-income peripheries and works towards the development of bills and public policies that improve the lives of the country’s black population.
An articulation composed of several civil society organizations and movements that, since 2004, has been monitoring and working to protect human rights defenders who are at risk or who are suffering threats, attacks, and/or criminalization due to their work.
The Justice for Marielle and Anderson Committee is made up of the Marielle Franco Institute, Monica Benício, Agatha Reis, and the organizations Justiça Global, Amnesty International Brazil, Black Coalition for Rights, and Terra de Direitos. The Committee seeks justice, reparation, and non-repetition of the violence perpetrated against councilwoman and human rights defender Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes.
The National Committee in Defense of Territories against Mining brings together numerous social movements and human rights organizations to strengthen struggles for free territories. It also engages in activities such as training, academic research, mobilization, political articulation, and communication regarding the behavior and operations of mining companies.
The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) is a collegial body of equal composition, aiming to promote and defend human rights in Brazil through preventive, protective, reparative, and sanctioning actions regarding procedures and situations that threaten or violate these rights, which are provided for in the Federal Constitution and international acts and treaties ratified by Brazil.
The International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (DESC-Net) is a cooperative initiative between groups and individuals from different regions of the world, working towards social justice and human rights with a focus on economic, social, and cultural rights (DESC).
The European Union Temporary Relocation Platform (EUTRP), an initiative of the European Commission, is a network of entities engaged in the temporary relocation of human rights defenders at risk.
A federation of non-governmental human rights organizations. The aim is to promote respect for all the rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
Launched in June 2022, FPOPSEG brings together social movements from favelas, collectives, entities, human rights defenders, universities, and the families of victims of state violence with the goal of combating the racist, terrorist policies of the State against the favelas and low-income peripheries of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
A Working Group that brings together non-governmental organizations, unions, universities, and other experts in the field of Business and Human Rights, with national and international impact.
The Movement is formed by civil society organizations, networks, coalitions, social movements, and citizens working to promote the Escazú Agreement in Brazil and the qualified participation of Brazilian civil society in the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and other activities related to the Escazú Agreement. This agreement seeks to promote the rights of access to information, participation, and justice in environmental matters and the protection of environmental defenders. It is the first environmental agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the first in the world with specific obligations to protect environmental defenders.
The Human Rights Observatory – Crisis and COVID-19 is a strategic initiative by 35 social organizations and grassroots movements from a diverse range of human rights, to monitor, formulate, and systematize information related to human rights in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and Brazilian crises.
The World Organization Against Torture is the largest coalition of non-governmental organizations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary, and arbitrary executions, forced disappearances, and other forms of violence.
It is a network formed by 40 civil society organizations that undertake actions to promote and defend Human, Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (HESCE), as well as to repair rights violations.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) assesses the compliance with human rights obligations and commitments undertaken by the United Nations Member States, aiming to improve the situation of Human Rights throughout the world. The UPR Brazil coalition brings together civil society entities to monitor the human rights situation in Brazil under the UPR recommendations.
It is a space for identification, solidarity, and strengthening of the principles of Environmental Justice — a conceptual framework that connects popular struggles for social and human rights, the collective quality of life, and environmental sustainability. It was established as a forum for discussions, complaints, strategic mobilizations, and political articulation, with the purpose of formulating alternatives and enhancing the resistance actions developed by its members — social movements, environmental entities, NGOs, residents’ associations, unions, academic researchers, and research/teaching institutions.
Formed by eight non-governmental organizations that promote advocacy actions seeking to disseminate information, promote public debate, and develop and submit proposals to actors in the criminal justice system and civil society, within the areas of Data and Transparency, Rights and Guarantees, and Institutional Violence.
Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power, and Stop Impunity.
An articulation of organizations and social movements from various parts of the world for the construction of an International Treaty on human rights violations committed by transnational corporations.