In an aggressive speech, Brazil abandons diplomacy and attacks UN rapporteurs.
Brazil's Foreign Ministry abandons the diplomatic approach that has traditionally characterized its foreign policy and uses an international meeting to harshly attack UN rapporteurs who criticized Jair Bolsonaro's government.
247 Brazil's Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) is abandoning the diplomatic approach that has traditionally characterized its foreign policy and is using an international meeting this Thursday to harshly attack the United Nations rapporteurs who criticized the government. Jair BolsonaroThe aggressive Brazilian stance caused unease among foreign delegations and UN rapporteurs. This information comes from journalist Jamil Chade, in his... column on the UOL portal.
This week, experts denounced the Brazilian government for what they call "irresponsible policies" during the Covid-19 pandemic. "The epidemic has amplified the adverse impacts of a 2016 constitutional amendment that limited public spending in Brazil for 20 years," said independent experts on human rights and external debt, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, and the special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston. "The effects are now dramatically visible in the current crisis." The statement was also endorsed by five other rapporteurs, as well as the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls.
On Thursday, at a virtual meeting of the UN Human Rights Council to assess the impact of the disease, Brazil's ambassador Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo chose not to give any details about how the government has been acting and preferred to use her time to accuse the rapporteurs of ignoring the victims of the crisis.