Tag: violence

Police drag protester in Rio - Photo by Pedro Prado

International Court Rules Against Brazil’s Police Indiscriminate Killings

Amnesty International lambasted “impunity” for Brazilian police who kill suspects during operations, after a ...

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 ...

Brazil’s Left Parties Are Old and Bureaucratized, Warns MST’s Leader

“It is time for the government to ally with the people or pay the ...