Brazzil Magazine

Residents of Nova Palestina favela in São Paulo - Marcelo Camargo/ABr

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 ...

Protest in Rio against government's reforms - Fernando Frazão/ABr

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 ...

A child being born through a C-section

World Champion in C-section, Brazil Celebrates that Normal Birth Is Up 1%

  Since 2009, Brazil became the first country in the world where more babies ...

Houses from the My Home, My Life program being built

Brazil Cuts Poverty, But Human Rights Are Still a Serious Problem

Virtually all of the 169 recommendations made to Brazil by the UN Human Rights ...

Rendition of Brazil's SGDC Satellite. Photo: Thales Alenia Space

Brazil Launches the Satellite the US Spying Forced It to Build

Brazil will launch its first own satellite to protect the transfer of privileged national ...

A fisherman inspects the area of the new hydroelectric - Photo: Gustavo Faleiros

Once Expelled from Belo Monte, Brazil’s River People Are Back to Their Old Spot

All is not quiet on Brazil’s western frontier. Families that were displaced from their ...

The Alvorada Palace and its garden - Ichiro Guerra/PR

Priest Couldn’t Get Rid of Evil Spirit. So Brazil’s President Moved Out of His Palace

In an interview to weekly news magazine Veja, Brazilian President, Michel Temer, confided what ...

Brazil has never signed the UN convention against cluster munitions - © DanChurchAid

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 ...

A policeman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Speaking Out or Complaining Is a Sure Way to Jail for Brazilian Policemen

Brazilian authorities should reform laws that have been used to impose disproportionate punishments on ...