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Bolsonaro will be the target of complaints before the UN Human Rights Council.

The Bolsonaro government will face a series of complaints this week at the UN for its irresponsibility regarding the pandemic, stated columnist Jamil Chade of UOL.

Bolsonaro will be the target of complaints at the UN Human Rights Council (Photo: Reuters)

247 - A document prepared by Brazilian and international organizations will be discussed by the UN Human Rights Council this week in Geneva, focusing on Jair Bolsonaro. He will be the target of "a series of formal complaints at the UN" for his irresponsibility regarding the pandemic, the source stated. columnist Jamil Chade, from Uol.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, will be presenting a report on the international situation of the coronavirus pandemic. Chad reports that "entities such as Conectas and the Arns Commission promise to use the occasion" to denounce the Bolsonaro government and the situation in Brazil.

He also stated that other entities will denounce the government, such as “Amazon Watch, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Conectas Human Rights, Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), Lutheran Diaconal Foundation (FLD), Geledés - Institute of the Black Woman, Torture Never Again Group - Bahia, Ilê Omolu Oxum, Vladimir Herzog Institute, Terra de Direitos and others”.