Brazil: Lula Should Focus on Human Rights in New Term

Click to expand Image President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voting in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil (São Paulo, October 25, 2026) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been reelected as Brazil’s president, should use his new term to tackle chronic human rights problems, Human Rights Watch said today. President Lula defeated the Liberal Party candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, in a runoff election on October 25, 2