Jan Rocha is a British born journalist and writer who was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). Her books about Brazil include Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the Gold Miners and the Amazon and Cutting the Wire (the story of the Landless Movement in Brazil) with Sue Branford, for which they won a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1999. In 2020 she published Nossa Correspondente Informa, a selection of BBC stories broadcast during the Brazilian dictatorship. Her book about the work of CLAMOR, (the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the countries of the Southern Cone) which she helped create in 1978, will be launched in London on April 27th under the title "CLAMOR: The search for the disappeared of the South American dictatorships". She has twice won the Vladimir Herzog Human Rights prize for journalism, in the categories of radio and books. From 2003-4 she was coordinator of an ILO project investigating the extent of slave labor in Brazil. From 2013-2014 she was a consultant to the Brazilian Truth Commission.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

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