Expressing profound concern about threats to human rights, the rule of law, democracy, and the environment in Brazil.

calls on President Bolsonaro and members of his cabinet to abstain from hate speech and threats directed at minorities and to instead work to protect the human rights of all Brazilian citizens, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs;

urges the Brazilian Government to protect indigenous peoples’ rights as guaranteed under the Brazilian Constitution, including the right to their own social organizations, customs, languages, and beliefs, and the right to their traditional lands;

urges Brazil’s authorities to protect workers’ rights as stipulated under the International Labour Organization conventions, which Brazil has ratified, including the right to organize and bargain collectively;

urges Brazil’s Government to take all possible actions to reduce deforestation of the Amazon rainforest within the country’s borders and take all necessary measures to ensure the elimination of illegal deforestation by 2030, in accordance with Brazil’s obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;

calls on the United States Government to oppose loans from the World Bank Group or the Inter-American Development Bank used to fund projects that are likely to contribute to further deforestation or fires within the rainforests located in the Amazon Basin;

urges Brazil’s judicial and police authorities to fully investigate the murder of Marielle Franco and work to identify and prosecute those who ordered her assassination;

urges Brazil’s judicial authorities, in particular the ministers of the Supreme Federal Court, to investigate allegations of unethical conduct by Sergio Moro, Federal prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, and other agents involved in the judicial proceedings against former president da Silva;

directs the inspector general of the United States Department of Justice to perform a full review of the Department’s activities in Brazil to determine whether United States Government agents have at any point encouraged or abetted unethical conduct perpetrated by Brazilian judicial agents including members of the Lava Jato task force;

calls on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court to urgently undertake an assessment of the merits of da Silva’s convictions and the fairness of the proceedings brought against him, and to release da Silva while his appeals are pending, as stipulated under Brazil’s Constitution;

calls on relevant international human rights organizations, such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to closely monitor the human rights situation in Brazil; and

expresses its sense that the United States should rescind Brazil’s designation as a Major Non-NATO Ally and suspend all assistance to Brazil’s military and police forces unless the Department of State formally certifies that effective measures are being taken to curtail unjustified extrajudicial killings by Brazilian State security agents, investigate and prosecute the killings of activists, and comply with international human rights norms.