Date: August 6, 2020
Location: online event

The seminar aimed to discuss topics related to access to human rights by refugees in Brazil, with a focus on reflecting on the progress made in the country and the challenges that still remain. The debate included the perspective of professionals who worked or work on three essential fronts for the protection of refugees: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Brazilian State and civil society.

Participating in the initiative as speakers were Maria Beatriz Bonna Nogueira, head of the UNHCR field office in São Paulo and former general coordinator of the National Committee for Refugees – Conare (2016), Deborah Duprat, former federal prosecutor for Citizen’s Rights ( MPF) and Carolina Moulin Aguiar, professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at UFMG and collaborating researcher at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio.

The event was promoted by UNHCR, the Brazilian branch of the International Law Association, the Directorate of International Relations at UFMG and had the support of the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at UFMG.