Tag: 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 ...
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, ...
Brazil Is Not Winning Its War Against Violence on Black Women
Every year, Amnesty International releases a report on the state of human rights across ...
A Few Examples of How Societal Fascism Is Alive and Well in Brazil
In 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote his Theses on the Concept of History prompted by ...
Dozens Killed in Brazil’s Worst Prison Massacre in Two Decades
A prison riot has left at least 56 dead, with decapitated bodies thrown over ...
Gun Kills 42,000 Brazilians a Year, One Every 12 Minutes, 24/7
The number of gun-related deaths in Brazil was 42,416 in 2012, an equivalent to ...
Viva Maria, a Brazil Show Fighting Violence Against Women for Three Decades
A program created to break the silence about violence against women: this is how ...
Brazil Protests: Bus and Banks Vandalized and Burned in Rio and São Paulo
Protesters demonstrating in Brazil in support of teachers receiving better pay in the Brazilian ...
