Economy
Internet Expanded Sex Work from Finding Sugar Daddy to Selling Used Panties
More people are getting involved in more types of sex work, especially with the ...
The Solution to Brazil’s Deforestation: Fixing the Country’s Economy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. ...
I’m a Munduruku and I See First Hand Our Amazon World Crumbling
We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how ...
A Message to Brazil: “We Are Not Occupying Your Lands. You Have Invaded Us.”
We will remember 2020 as the year when the coronavirus pandemic spread worldwide, reached ...
World’s Largest Cash Transfer to Families Is a Brazil’s Model Program
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil Were as Young as Nine
A large Brazilian tobacco exporter has been charged with using slave labor in the ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
Survival of Brazil’s Flower-gatherers, a 300-year-old Activity, Threatened by Mining and State
“The mountain range is our soil, our life,” affirms Maria de Fátima Alves, head ...
