Brasília - Minister Nilmário Miranda, in charge of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, announced on Tuesday (15), that police officers in the state of Pará will receive training from Canadian colleagues to work on behalf of defenders of human rights, witnesses threatened with death, and victims of persecution in the state.

According to Miranda, this initiative is part of a program that the federal government is implementing in partnership with the state of Pará. "We are receiving information from every spot where conflicts are occurring, from all these hot spots, to discuss measures to protect the population and train policemen to deal with these situations," Miranda said in a collective interview in the Planalto Palace, following a meeting of 12 Ministers who were convened to discuss measures related to the assination of the American missionary, Dorothy Stang, last Saturday (12), in the state of Pará.

Translation: David Silberstein