Poverty

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 ...

Rio train painted with athletes and work from Cândido Portinari - Daniel Ramalho/Rio2016

How the Rio Olympic Games Helped the Wealthy and Hurt the Poor

The Olympic Games revealed the deep socioeconomic and political contradictions of Brazil and helped ...

Why I Wrote Brazilian Tequila – a Journey into the Interior

In a dark corner of the library in my Jesuit school in Ireland there ...

By Law Kids Cannot Hold a Job in Brazil. Three Million of Them Work Anyway

Brazil’s Prosecution Service for Labor (MPT) is launching a national campaign against child labor. ...

What the World Can Learn from a Brazilian Pioneering Drug Program

In Brazil, a drug program in the northeastern state of Pernambuco has provided some ...

Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...

To House Its Poorest, Brazil Must Go Beyond Home Ownership And Look Abroad For Inspiration

São Paulo’s mayor Fernando Haddad has a lot to finish up before he hands ...

Brazil Indians Dying from Extreme Poverty and for Lack of Food, Water

Brazil’s National Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA) submitted recommendations to several federal and state ...

A New UN Poverty Index Shows Brazil with an Improvement of 20% in Six Years

Brazil’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (“MPI”) has dropped by 22.5% in six years. According to ...

Brazil, a Poor Country Mired in Lies, Hostage to Greedy Political Parties

The results of research recently published by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and ...