Conectas Direitos Humanos

Founded in 2001, Conectas Direitos Humanos is a non-governmental organisation based in São Paulo, Brazil working on human rights, democracy & civil society, justice & legal aid +1 more.

Conectas Direitos Humanos is a Brazilian non-governmental organisation founded in 2001 and based in São Paulo. It works to protect, enforce and expand human rights from a Global South perspective. Its work covers strategic litigation against state violations, particularly in prisons and youth detention, advocacy within UN and regional human rights systems, defence of democracy and civic space, and socio-environmental rights. It organises the International Human Rights Colloquium and the Feira de Ideias, and publishes the Revista Sur. Conectas holds UN consultative status, observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and observer status with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It has also served on several Brazilian public policy councils on torture prevention and human rights.