Date: August 06, 2020
Location: Online Event

The seminar aimed to discuss issues related to access to human rights by refugees in Brazil, focusing on reflecting on existing advances in the country and the challenges that still remain. The debate had the perspective of professionals who worked or work on three essential fronts for the protection of refugees: UNHCR, the Brazilian State and civil society.

Participating in the initiative 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 Citizens’ 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 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Brazilian branch of the International Law Association, the Directorate of International Relations at UFMG, and was supported by the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at UFMG.