Tag: women
Abortion: Pro-choice Forces in Brazil Are Being Threatened by Christian Radicals and the Ultra-right
Brazil’s Supreme Court has postponed a debate on decriminalizing early-term abortion, leading feminists and ...
Religious Extremism and Intolerance Give Way to Renewed Human Rights in Brazil
The result of Brazil’s election last October was a cause for celebration for many ...
Why Women’s Casual Sex Is Seen So Negatively by Male and Female?
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called the Roaring Twenties – which happened on the heels ...
How Men and the Inquisition Ended Women’s Dominance in the Beer Industry Calling Them Witches
What do witches have to do with your favorite beer? When I pose this ...
Brazilian Women Find Their Voice Against Repression and the Government
The street parties of the world’s biggest Carnaval might be one of the last ...
Rio’s Carnaval Celebrates Life and Blasts New President
Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Carnaval celebrations officially began on Friday in the first festival ...
São Paulo Joins New Delhi as World’s Worst Megacity for Women Rape
Five years after the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in ...
Women in the Streets Against a Brazilian Mayor with Presidential Ambitions
In Brazil, a group of women have been protesting at the city hall in ...
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,” ...
Discrimination from Parties Keeps Brazilian Women from Elective Posts
Nearly 20 years after it became mandatory for political parties in Brazil to save ...
