Poverty
G20 Is Not a Total Disaster. Brazil Is an Inspiration for Work Against Poverty
Suffering, starvation, mass displacement: Is the fight against extreme poverty, illness and war hopeless? ...
São Paulo Destroys Crackland and Offers Instead Forced Hospitalization for Drug Addicts
On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown São Paulo ...
São Paulo’s Answer to Drugs: Police, Tractors and Forced Treatment
Last Sunday, São Paulo authorities dramatically deployed a “new” approach to dealing with drug ...
For Decades, Brazil Favelas’ Military Invasions Have Been Proven Useless. And Still They Continue
On March 25 2017, two professors from Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University accompanied a ...
Heroes or Thugs? They Invade Brazil’s Abandoned Buildings to Get Affordable Housing
Behind a heavy metal gate and walls painted with murals of revolutionary icon ...
When Housing Rights for Brazil’s Poor Clash with Drinkable Water for 5 Million
On the fringes of São Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded ...
How the Rio Olympic Games Helped the Wealthy and Hurt the Poor
The Olympic Games revealed the deep socioeconomic and political contradictions of Brazil and helped ...
By Law Kids Cannot Hold a Job in Brazil. Three Million of Them Work Anyway
Brazil’s Prosecution Service for Labor (MPT) is launching a national campaign against child labor. ...
What the World Can Learn from a Brazilian Pioneering Drug Program
In Brazil, a drug program in the northeastern state of Pernambuco has provided some ...
