"In 1971, human rights violations had begun to intensify in Brazil. Suspected political opponents of the government were being abducted or arrested, brutally tortured, and sometimes killed by agents of the military government. Torture would usually happen quickly, either before or immediately after arrest. In London, Amnesty International's new researcher on Brazil, Tracy Ulltveit-Moe, was receiving blunt feedback from her Brazilian contacts. It was apparent that Amnesty International's existing methods were too slow and too narrowly focused to address the scope and nature of violations in Brazil"--
