Bolsonaro will have to respond to UN about high death toll from covid

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In a review by the UN Human Rights Committee on human rights policies in Brazil, the government of Jair Bolsonaro will have to respond to what is deemed to have high death rates from covid-19.

in an official document obtained by UOL and the body, which was sent to the government on 7 April, highlights issues that need to be clarified by Brazilian authorities during a review of their policies.

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However, one of the quotes focuses on the right to life, and according to the document, it will be up to the government to explain what is being done in the face of the pandemic.

The Committee therefore requests the government to “respond to reports of high death rates from COVID-19 and explain the measures taken to prevent preventable deaths”. In practice, the agency puts the government against the wall by demanding that authorities explain what is being done to deal with the pandemic, a strategy denounced by experts, scientists and doctors.

With 661,000 deaths, Brazil appears to be the second place with the second highest number of deaths from covid-19 since the pandemic began in 2020. The US alone crosses the border with Brazil with over 900,000 deaths.

For months, Bolsonaro’s government denied the seriousness of the disease and promoted drugs and treatments whose efficacy was disputed by science.

For months, Brazil has been the target of public criticism from the WHO (World Health Organization), which begs political leaders to take responsibility. A rapporteur still at the UN in 2021 even proposed the establishment of an international commission of inquiry against Brazil due to the decisions taken about the pandemic.

There is no penalty prescribed by the UN. But concluding that the government cannot guarantee the right to life would be a relevant political constraint on the international image of a president who is currently struggling for acceptance by foreign governments. Sources in Geneva are still betting that a final decision by the Committee on the matter could fuel the complaint against Bolsonaro at the International Criminal Court.

In the current text sent earlier in the month, the UN also asked the government to “explain the measures taken to protect vulnerable groups such as Afro-Brazilians, pregnant women and indigenous peoples from Covid-19, and to provide statistics on mortality rates from the disease”. COVID-19 is within these groups compared to the general population.”

If the virus was immediately dubbed “democratic” because it affected everyone, it was clear that in a few countries it was more deadly among the strata with the least access to public services. In Brazil, the situation was no different.

The committee’s experts also want the government itself to “share the results of the investigation launched by the Senate into the treatment of the pandemic” by the Executive. The Covid-19 CPI has sought indictments against President Bolsonaro, as well as several of his ministers and former ministers. A year after the Commission of Inquiry was established, none of those involved were formally charged by the Attorney General’s Office.

The document sent to Brazil summarizes the international unrest over the last three years over the dismantling of public human rights policies.

The letter cited the president’s attacks on democracy, the fragility of the fight against corruption, the cutting of funding for programs to support women, hate speech by political leaders, the plight of indigenous people, the environment, the press, people of African descent, police brutality, and other suspected violations.

The blame comes at a time when the United Nations body is beginning the process of examining Brazil’s situation, the size of a survey of the impact of the Jair Bolsonaro government’s years in power.

The Executive submitted a report on the situation in the country to the Committee, hoping that the document would be sufficient for experts to use as a basis for examining Brazil. However, as the UOL specifically explained, the report only addressed human rights issues until the end of 2018 and did not reveal what was done under Bolsonaro’s government.

When contacted with the Ministry of Family, Women and Human Rights, they explained that there was no time to include existing policies in the document prepared in the first months of 2019. However, this gesture of Brazil was met with irony and disbelief by some quarters. The number of experts currently questioning the government about the events and challenges of the past three years.

source: Noticias

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