Brazil Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/category/news/brazil/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Brazil Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/category/news/brazil/ 32 32 59910430 CCS Expresses Concern About Harassment of Scientists Working on COVID-19 https://concernedscientists.org/2020/07/ccs-expresses-concern-about-harassment-of-scientists-working-on-covid-19/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:30:16 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8499 The Committee of Concerned Scientists is an independent organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars that has been working, since 1972, on the advancement of human rights and scientific freedom for our colleagues all over the world. At this time of great international effort on the containment of COVID-19, we are concerned with the politicization […]

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]]> 8499 Head of National Institute for Space Research in Brazil Terminated for Reporting Amazon Deforestation Findings https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/head-of-national-institute-for-space-research-in-brazil-terminated-for-reporting-amazon-deforestation-findings/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 02:59:44 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7536 Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvao, head of the National Institute for Space Research and a well known and respected physicist was terminated and accused of lying by the President. CCS has written his former boss and a former astronaut requesting further information on the dismissal of Galvao. August 24, 2019 Marcos Cesar Pontes Ministério da Ciência, […]

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