According to the column by journalist Jamil Chad, in the next few days the national authorities will have to provide answers to the organization’s experts on how they want to address the challenges and structural transgressions of human rights in the country.

Such an analysis was scheduled before President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the October elections and, throughout the last year of Bolsonaro’s administration, Brazil was obliged to present a report on the human rights situation.

However, it caught the attention of the committee’s specialists the fact that the leadership of the far-right politician claimed in the official documents presented that there was no dissemination of hatred in his term of office.

In her speech before the Committee, the executive secretary of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship of Lula’s government, Rita de Oliveira, stated that, contrary to what the former Executive had said, in recent years, manifestations of hatred and incitement were widely verified in “public statements of high authorities” of that period.

According to De Oliveira, Lula’s government took measures to face the roots of hatred and “fortunately, once again, Brazilian institutions resisted,” she said.

The secretary linked the coup attempt, perpetrated on January 8 in Brasília, to the attitude of Bolsonaro’s allies in disseminating hatred.

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