This Annual Report by Global Justice should shame Brazil. More than fifty years ago, Brazil joined many other countries in the United Nations to proclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, these pages provide proof of the profound abyss between that document and the political will to comply with it. If the sense of shame does not paralyze us it is only because the sense of indignation is stronger. That indignation explodes like a volcanic eruption, signaling that the fire of ethics remains alive inside.
Human beings have the right to what is human.
Fifteen billion years were necessary to create the first person. All of us are composed of cells, which are composed of molecules, which are composed of atoms. Atoms of the ninety-two elements that make up the Atlantic ocean, the trees in the Amazon, the snow of the Andes, and the rock of the Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio De Janeiro. And that make up the entire universe. There, all the atoms of the body of a street child, as well as those of the Queen of England were prepared, with the exception of the hydrogen atom the raw material of Creation.