While Brazil is one of the wealthier nations in the Global South, it is also one of the world’s most unfair societies.  Vast economic disparities have created brutal inequities in every sphere, including access to justice.  Despite its successful democratization process, Brazil still suffers from endemic violence, deeply entrenched patterns of police abuse, and grossly unfair sentencing and incarceration practices, among a host of other problems.  These problems are borne disproportionately by poor communities and vulnerable groups that have limited recourse to the courts and legal redress.  This dire state of affairs is made worse by the fact that strategic human rights litigation and pro bono public interest lawyeringis neither widely known nor practiced in Brazil.