; Whereas homophobic hate crimes and killings have been increasing throughout Brazil, as reported by the Washington Post, and openly gay Congressman Jean Wyllys fled Brazil in January 2019, after receiving repeated death threats; Whereas President Bolsonaro has closed the 88-year-old Ministry of Labor, announced reforms that would effectively end the country’s labor justice system and eliminate the right to collective bargaining, and issued an Executive order that weakens labor inspection and enforcement, ends overtime and Sunday pay, and reduces paid vacations and severance payments; Whereas former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—the leading candidate in the October 2018 presidential elections—was arrested on dubious charges of corruption, swiftly sentenced to 12 years in prison, and deemed legally ineligible to run for office; Whereas Brazilian authorities rejected a request by the United Nations Human Rights Committee to allow da Silva to run in the October 2018 elections, despite the Brazilian State’s legal ratified obligation to comply to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Whereas Sergio Moro, the presiding judge in da Silva’s case, acted in a clearly biased manner toward da Silva, violating his right to a fair and impartial judicial process under Brazilian law; Whereas, in June 2019, media outlets published leaked communications exposing politically motivated collusion between Sergio Moro and prosecutors in da Silva’s case, with Moro providing strategic advice and sharing privileged information with prosecutors; Whereas President Bolsonaro appointed Sergio Moro to the position of Minister of Justice and later announced that he had promised to nominate Moro to the next open seat on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court