Violence
Every Minute 8 Women Are Victims of Violence in Brazil
Details from DataFolha’s latest study, “Visible and Invisible: The Mistreatment of Women in Brazil,” ...
International Court Rules Against Brazil’s Police Indiscriminate Killings
Amnesty International lambasted “impunity” for Brazilian police who kill suspects during operations, after a ...
The 35 Million-Strong General Strike that Stopped Brazil in Its Tracks
Amid record levels of unemployment and a terribly unpopular government, unions and citizens from ...
In Brazil, Land Speculators Know Well They Are Above the Law
On the Amazon frontier, where many people operate outside the law, you often hear ...
For a Majority of Brazilians the Only Good Criminal Is a Dead One
Bandido bom é bandido morto — The only good criminal is a dead criminal. ...
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 ...
In Rio It’s War. And a Video Shows Police Executing Two Men on the Ground
A police officer walks up to a man lying on the ground, reaches down, ...
Brazilian Land Rights Activist Shot Dead in Hospital While Recovering from Assassination Attempt
Waldomiro Costa Pereira, an activist with the Landless Workers Movement, MST, was killed when ...
Brazilians Pour onto Streets Demanding a Halt to Reforms and the President’s Ousting
Brazilians took to the streets in a nationwide protest on Wednesday against President Michel ...
Made-in-Brazil Banned Cluster Bombs Are Maiming and Killing in the Middle East
On 15 February 2017, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fired Brazilian-manufactured cluster munitions on three ...
