Poverty
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 ...
Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...
To House Its Poorest, Brazil Must Go Beyond Home Ownership And Look Abroad For Inspiration
São Paulo’s mayor Fernando Haddad has a lot to finish up before he hands ...
Brazil Indians Dying from Extreme Poverty and for Lack of Food, Water
Brazil’s National Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA) submitted recommendations to several federal and state ...
A New UN Poverty Index Shows Brazil with an Improvement of 20% in Six Years
Brazil’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (“MPI”) has dropped by 22.5% in six years. According to ...
